DEAR MR. LEVIN,
HOW ARE YOU AND YOUR FAMILY DOING? MY HUSBAND TIM, I\’M KAREN, BOUGHT YOUR BOOK RESCUING SPRITE. TIM HAS ALREADY READ IT, I HAVE TWO CHAPTERS LEFT. YOU MADE A COMMENT IN YOUR BOOK WHEN YOU WERE TALKING TO RUSH. YOU SAID \”WELL, NOBODY WOULD WANT TO READ ABOUT MY DOG\”. YOUR BOOK IS WONDERFUL. AS YOU READ IT YOU FALL IN LOVE WITH SPRITE AND PEPSI.

WHEN I WAS 6 I WAS ADOPTED AND THEY HAD A MINI DACHSUND, HER NAME WAS PRETZEL. BEFORE THEY GOT ME THEY HAD PRETZEL 1 AND PRETZEL 2, PRETZEL 1 DIED. WHEN I WAS 12 PRETZEL 2 DIED, MY DAD ACCIDENTLY HIT HIM WITH THE CAR. I DID NOTHING BUT CRY IT HIT ME SO HARD. THEN FOR CHRISTMAS MOM AND DAD LEFT TO GO SOME WHERE AND WHEN THEY CAME HOME DAD HAD A LUMP UNDER HIS COAT. WHEN HE UNDID HIS COAT A LITTLE BROWN HEAD POPED OUT. HE WAS ADORABLE AND HE BECAME PRETZEL THE THIRD.

I LOVED MY PRETZEL\’S AND I STILL REMEMBER THE WONDERFUL TIMES I HAD WITH THEM. TIM AND I GOT MARRIED IN 1999 AND I TOLD HIM BEFORE I GET OLD AND GRAY I WANTED MY OWN MINI DACHSUND AND I WANT TO NAME HIM PRETZEL. WE HAVE A COLLIE ANDY, AGE 9, HE\’S GETTING OLD AND SLOWING DOWN, AND WE ALSO HAVE TWO MINI DACHSUNDS PRETZEL THE FOURTH AND CHIPS. TIM SURPRISED ME WITH BOTH DACHSUNDS. THE FIRST TIME HE TOOK ME FOR A RIDE AND EVENTUALLY STOPPED AT A LADY\’S HOUSE. SHE CAME OUT WALKING TOWARD US CARRYING PRETZEL. TIM HAD BEEN TALKING TO HER AND ASKED HER TO CALL HIM PRETZEL SO HE WOULD KNOW HIS NAME. I CRYED SO HARD. THEN A YEAR LATER TIM CAME HOME WITH CHIPS. PRETZEL IS LAID BACK AND CHIPS IS OUR MISCHIEVIOUS ONE AND ALL THREE ARE A JOY. ANDY, PRETZEL AND CHIPS ARE VERY SPOILED BUT WE FEEL THEY NEED TO BE SPOILED MORE.

OUR KIDS ARE GROWN, FAMILYS OF THEIR OWN AND ANDY, PRETZEL AND CHIPS ARE OUR BABIES. THEY EACH HAVE THEIR OWN PERSONALITIES. THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR LIFE ABOUT SPRITE AND PEPSI. TIM AND I REALLY ENJOY THE BOOK. BOTH OF US HAD TO HAVE TISSUES. PRETZEL JUST CAME IN COMPUTER ROOM AND IS IN MY LAP.  THANK YOU AGAIN AND TAKE CARE, AND GOD BLESS.

TIM AND KAREN FROM MI