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Ever since its birth, this dog has been with Larry. Now, the dog was malodorous, old, crippled and blind, but Larry was always with it. (The adj. stinky is too colloquial to be employed in written English.) Larry's roommate, John, wanted to get rid of the dog because he was bothered by the...

Hello Pretty good proposal. I have only a few minor suggestions: "cannot" is usually one word unless you're emphasising the NOT very strongly. There are several repetitions of the word "focus", which may be considered an unfortunate methaphor, given the subject matter. Consider synonyms...