Ernest Hemingway wrote that the circus is a "happy dream" but, as Mr. Wall suggests, in a dream the dreamer reconnects with what he already knows.

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As I wrote last season, there is an interesting, dream-like symbiosis that happens around these prototypes.

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Founders David and Angie Porter, "invented the FURminator deshedding tools, and, taking great personal financial risk, pursued a dream to start a business and sell those products, " company lawyers wrote in court filings.

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More recently, I wrote and directed a comedic Web series called "Living the Dream" (featured on the aptly named BitterLawyer.com), which is about a clueless first-year associate trying to make it big at an unusually cruel and prestigious law firm.

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