At first…
people smiled.
A dog carrying a pinecone.
Cute.
But then it happened again.
The next morning.
And the next.
Every sunrise…
the same old dog climbed the church steps.
Carefully placed one pinecone beside the front door.
Then quietly walked away.
Nobody knew where the pinecones came from.
Nobody knew why he did it.
Until the church caretaker followed him one cold morning.
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The caretaker followed the dog into a nearby pine forest.
There, beneath a large fallen tree, lived a family of red squirrels.
The old dog had spent years wandering those woods.
Whenever he found fresh pinecones, he carried one to the church steps first.
People unknowingly picked them up and tossed them into the wooded garden beside the church.
The squirrels collected them later.
It had become a strange routine that benefited everyone.
Whether the dog understood the full chain of events, nobody knows.
But every autumn, one pinecone still appears on the steps.
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