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It was in South Carolina during the 1989-90 basketball season — Gregg Marshall recalls time in terms of sports seasons, "not by regular human years," says his wife, Lynn — when the Marshalls first met Penny.

Gregg was working as an assistant coach at the College of Charleston when his wife wanted him to go look at a dog she'd seen advertised in the paper.

The dog was a sickly-looking beagle with no hair on her ears, and although she was covered up to her chest in brick-red mud, "you could see all of her ribs," Lynn said.