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In a bright hallway decorated with a few balloons, a young black and tan Dobermann sits very politely with all four paws on a mat beside a low table holding a birthday cake with lit candles.

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The Leapling

Ask a leapling her age and you get two answers. Born on 29 February, she’s forty on her passport and ten in birthdays: ten real ones, with the right date on the cake. The years went by. The birthdays mostly didn’t turn up.

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