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Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring – it was peace. — Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being Eva's second birthday began with a pilgrimage of sorts. Months ago, back when the year still looked orderly on paper, and the future had not…