title: Molly and the Accidental Adoption: A true story
author: Lee Gaffney
description: Lee Gaffney and her husband, Tom, share their home with four adopted mixed breed dogs, all of whom work as animal assisted therapy dogs. Since 1991, Lee has been an active member of the Visiting Pet Program in New Orleans and has served several terms as President. Through the years, she and Tom have rescued, trained and had 13 dogs successfully evaluated for therapy work. Lee is also the author of "Recycled Pups", a road map to helping you and your dog become a successful animal assisted therapy team. Available through Amazon.com
zlib_text: PROLOGUE
  MOLLY GIFFORD PACKED the last of her suitcases and
  boxes into the trunk and slammed it shut tight.
  Another door closing, she thought. Her life here in Hawken’s
  Cove was over. Finished. Time to move on.
  She spared a last glance at the house she’d lived in for the last
  year, a year she’d spent grasping for that elusive thing called
  family that was always just out of reach.
  She should have known better. Shouldn’t have gotten her
  hopes up that this time would be different. That her mother
  would marry, settle down and make a family that included
  Molly instead of excluding her. And at the ripe old age of
  twenty-seven, Molly should be way past caring. But she
  wasn’t. She was still the kid shuffled from boarding school to
  boarding school, the quality of which depended on the size of
  her mother’s current husband’s checkbook. Her real father
  wasn’t good for more than a couple of cards a year, her
  birthday and the punch-in-the-gut Christmas card with the
  photo of his family.
  Just a week 