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“We could’ve won that game by 10 points on our side” - Kyle Filipowski Two games, 80 minutes. Duke only led for 16 seconds in both games combined. Let’s just call it how it is and say Carolina dominated Duke from start to finish twice. 📽️: CarolinaBlitz

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This was filmed this last week at Fresno, California. The man's name is Jason. He's 36. The dog's name is Duke. Eight-year-old Boxer mix. Brindle coat. Two years and three months ago, Jason lost his job. Tech layoffs. Couldn't find work for months. Lost his apartment. Lived in his car with Duke for five months. Parking lots. Truck stops. Trying to survive. Then his car got repossessed. Missed too many payments. Jason had nowhere to go. No way to keep Duke safe. He surrendered Duke to Second Chance. Left crying so hard he had to pull over twice on the bus ride home. Jason got into a veteran housing program last November. Small studio. Allows dogs. He spent three months calling every shelter he could find. Searched databases. Drove to 68 different shelters across California. Found Duke's photo on Second Chance's website four days ago. Called immediately. The phone video shows Jason walking into the reunion room with his housing caseworker. Duke is standing in the middle of the room with a volunteer. Duke sees Jason. Freezes completely. Just stands there. Staring. Like his brain can't process it. Then Duke starts jumping. Straight up. Vertical jumps. Over and over. High-pitched crying sounds. That desperate jumping that means a dog's emotions are exploding and they don't know what to do with them. Then Duke runs. Full speed. Launches at Jason's chest. Jason falls backward. Both crash to the floor. Duke on top of him. Shaking like he's freezing. Frantically licking Jason's face. His neck. His ears. Won't stop. Can't stop. Jason wraps both arms around Duke. Sobbing. "I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I never wanted to leave you. I had no choice." They stayed on that floor for twenty minutes before the caseworker could even get them to stand up. The volunteer told us: "Duke's been here for 27 months. Never bonded with anyone. Just... existed. Waited. We didn't think anyone was coming back for him." Jason said: "I promised him I'd come back when I had a home again. It took 27 months. 68 shelters. But I kept looking. I never stopped." Duke went home with Jason this afternoon. Two years and three months. 68 shelters. One impossible promise kept.

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