They rent houses for the season so they can play here. Mostly on the beach or on the water. Sometimes they play inside. The real rich ones, they own houses, but they use them only in the summer.The summers are perfect here, but the winters are ugly and hard. The people who live here all year wait for one thing only. Summer means money. Winter means pain.The summer people sometimes buy little puppies for their kids, so the kids will have something to play with. But they can’t take dogs back to the city, so they just leave them. The people who live here take some of them, but they can’t take them all. The ones the people can’t take, they live or they die. If they live through the winter, they usually make it. But you can see they will never be regular dogs again.They call those dogs “summer puppies,” because everyone knows what the rich people want them for. And what happens to them.Lorraine was a summer girl.It wasn’t like she was the first one. Everyone said it would happen.
