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As Spock would say, may you "live long and prosper."

Now I see the shifting, how the stack of books on my parents' bedside table changed from catalogs for local colleges, encyclopedias of mythology, novels by James, Eliot, and Dickens, to the works of Dr. Spock.† (source) Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones, 2002

He reads about the riots that took place during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago and about Dr. Benjamin Spock, the baby doctor, being sentenced to two years in jail for threatening to counsel draft evaders.† (source) Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake, 2003

Come on, Mr. Spock, I'll explain everything.† (source) Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero, 2010

It depressed and embarrassed me to remember that time: our Autobot wars and Lego spaceships, the secret identities we'd assumed from classic Star Trek (I was Kirk, he was Spock) in an effort to make a game of our torments.† (source) Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch, 2013

I think I read that in Spock.† (source) Stephen King, The Shining, 1977

And who do you think you are—Dr. Spock?† (source) Dave Pelzer, The Lost Boy, 1997

Mr. Spock, his first officer, was the always-logical intellect on board.† (source) Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture, 2008

He brushed ashes from his hands and sat on the sofa beside his wife, her feet propped on pillows, her swollen ankles crossed, a copy of Dr. Spock balanced on her belly.† (source)

You never joke about anything, Mr. Spock.† (source)

Down the hall, Spock barked three times behind the door to my father's bedroom.† (source)

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He let Spock lick the pizza grease off his fingers.† (source)

Spock rolled over and whined for a belly rub.† (source)

Spock woofed and Dad rolled out to see why.† (source)

Spock jumped off the couch, shook himself, and fled for the kitchen.† (source)

Spock barked, that's what startled me awake.† (source)

And yet here he was, as sober as Spock and me, and being a soldier was all he could talk about.† (source)

Spock whined again and thumped his tail.† (source)

Spock jumped up and shook himself, raising a cloud of fur and dander that hung in the sunlight.† (source)

Spock ran to the window and put his front paws on the sill, barking.† (source)

Spock hopped up next to him and laid his shaggy head on Dad's lap.† (source)

He walked Spock every morning and every afternoon, coming home in the gloaming, just before dark.† (source)

Spock and I went for a walk until the fumes cleared.† (source)

I walked the house from one end to the other, back and forth, Spock following close behind me.† (source)

The only sound was the whump, whump of Spock's tail on the couch cushions as Dad scratched his ears.† (source)

Blood staining the carpet under his head, Spock lying next to him.† (source)

The tree leaned toward the window, shedding needles whenever Spock's tail thwacked against it.† (source)

Dog hair on his jeans where Spock had rubbed against him.† (source)

Spock followed her to the door, tail wagging.† (source)

I stretched out next to Spock and let him lick my face before he fell asleep.† (source)

Spock?† (source) Dave Pelzer, The Lost Boy, 1997

Spock got tired of following me and lay down on the carpet in the same spot where Dad collapsed the day he found out that Roy was dead.† (source)

I bent down to scratch Spock's ears.† (source)

Spock went to the door, tail wagging.† (source)

After the game, I took Spock for a walk, the envelopes in the pouch of my hoodie, resealed as best I could.† (source)

Spock headed for the door as it opened.† (source)

Too much weight on the end of a branch would snap it off, then Spock would eat the cookie, the yarn, and start in on the branch.† (source)

I fed Spock and put away the tools.† (source)

I sat on the couch with Spock.† (source)

Under the table, Spock whimpered.† (source)

I made Spock sit between us on the couch, the demilitarized dog separating Dad and me like the zone that keeps the peace between North and South Korea.† (source)

Spock whined, then went quiet.† (source)

I had baked her an apple pie for a present, but nobody told me when she going to stop in, and nobody told me she'd be spending the rest of the week in Texas, so I split it with Spock and the ghost of my father.† (source)

Spock had started to gnaw on a hot spot on his hind leg, but to talk about that we'd have to talk about a trip to the vet and that would lead to talking about money and how we didn't have any because of everything else we couldn't talk about.† (source)

"Where's Spock?"† (source)

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Spock howled.† (source)

Our town had giant snowplows so the roads were more or less clear, but poor Spock grew so grumpy about having to stick his private parts in the snow to do his business, I finally shoveled out a potty patch for him and added it to the growing list of things I never thought I would do but did, anyway.† (source)

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