Animal lover left career as an actress to be Mom

Pat Becker Wallis stands at the edge of a table spread with several white binders, each chock-full of photos, documents and news clippings -- about modeling, acting, hosting a television show, authoring books, training dogs -- representing different eras of her life.

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