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<p>This is too wonderfully weird not to share. From the <em>Life Magazine</em> archives:</p>
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<p><em>In the early 1940s, a woman in Washington, DC, adopted a squirrel after she found the critter orphaned in a tree. The squirrel, dubbed Tommy Tucker by the family -- of which he soon became a part -- accompanied the lady of the house on shopping trips, visits to the local children&#39;s hospital, and the like. She also, it turned out, enjoyed dressing him up in specially made outfits. And so it begins ...</em></p>
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