asher welsh and two of the dogs and their owners in the book. this is rebecca, this is steve and this is wilma and that's brook and david and that is lieu coo. i'm going to talk to you, rebecca, first of all. i thumbed through your book because you have great stories in there. these two dogs happen to be pit bulls. they're not all pit bulls. different breeds of dogs. i want to ask you, why did you even compile this book? >> i really wanted to focus on stories about amazing dogs because everybody loves amazing dogs. but i also really wanted to highlight how people's lives can be profoundly changed by simply loving a dog. >> yes. >> so those were the stories that made it into the book. >> those were the stories that made it into the book. steve, your story made it into the book. steve a firefighter and wilma here has, if i recall the story, that wilma had an immune deficiency or disease that caused her to just kind of really have a hard time of the