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Spotty/Dotty, an adopted stray, on Dionne Searcey’s desk in Dakar, Senegal. Credit Dionne Searcey/The New York Times
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Spotty/Dotty, an adopted stray, on Dionne Searcey’s desk in Dakar, Senegal. Credit Dionne Searcey/The New York Times