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By Christine Van Dusen, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jul. 1--The radio is on at Poodle Parfait, but you can't hear it, not with all the woofing and yapping and whining of dogs getting shaved, clipped and soaped up.
This is Brenda Smith's dog-grooming business on Glenwood Avenue in Decatur. But today, as on most days, you won't find her in the shop.
She's downstairs in a makeshift apartment, slouched on a futon couch, smoking a skinny cigarette in the company of her mother's two bratty basenji pups, Ken
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