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     COMMENTS: Rock’O is the Bestest

In keeping with the venerable television news tradition of ending the week with a heartwarming animal feature, we bring you eight-year-old Riley Mers and her dog Rock'O, "the bestest friend anyone could ever wish for." Rock'O has liberated the girl from virtual imprisonment, NBC's Robert Bazell told us. She is so severely allergic to peanuts that she is "home-schooled with a friend and kept from going most places." Enter Rock'O, a service dog from the Florida Canine Academy, which mostly trains bomb sniffers. This time the academy switched from explosives to peanuts so Riley, with Rock'O at her side, can roam free.

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