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Helping Hand

By Roll Call Staff
Posted April 4, 2003 at 12:03pm

Mimi Kotaki, just 15 months old, is already looking out for others. Here she offers to use a bandanna to cover Scooby Doo, a 1-year-old basset hound, from last week’s warm spring sun. The little girl from Florida had just met the floppy-eared canine, owned by Hill resident Billy Burnett, on the West Front on Wednesday.

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