"When we get back to Jake’s, I’ll refer to these dogs as mine, and then correct myself — 'Your dogs, I mean, or both of ours' — and Jake will correct me back. 'They’re their own dogs,' he’ll say. 'We’re just the people who get to love them.'” —Blair Braverman for The New York Times Magazine

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‘Their Power Feels Like Mine’: A Dog Sled Racer Says Goodbye to Her Pack

After 20 years of racing, I wanted to take my sled dogs back into the wilderness.

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