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My dictionary widget defines it this way: To go for and bring back (someone or something.)
I find that to be beautifully appropriate.

For almost 15 years my heart was so broken over a dog that I had shut down completely to them.

They were a nuisance. They were co-dependent. They were needy. They shed. They drooled. They jumped. My friends with dogs always had to leave early to walk their dogs. Or they always wanted to bring them along on hikes. People talked about how human-like they were and to that I said, "You've lost your mind."

All of my affection and sentiment for the species was gone, baby, gone and my hardened heart proved to work like gangbusters at keeping it that way.

But then one day it didn't.