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Polka Dog Bakery is in the spotlight

By Beth Teitell

 |  Globe Staff  

  April 12, 2012

This is the story of a one-eyed dog from Puerto Rico (now deceased), a young, artsy couple searching for their calling in life, and Target. But that part comes later. The story begins around 2000, when a do-gooder brought Pearl, a scabby stray, to the U.S. hoping someone would adopt her, except who wants a vision-impaired Boxer with heart worm? She was facing being euthanized when Robert Van Sickle and Deborah Gregg decided that they should make her theirs.

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