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Wednesday, December 03, 2003 Today, I read a poem from the book Angel Pawprints: Reflections on Loving and Losing a Canine Companion given to me by Dr. V that just made me sob. I hadn't picked the book up in awhile cos it was too difficult for me to read before. There was one memory written that really hit close to home. Below are key points that I could relate to in my case... Written by Ruth Pollack Coughlin (1992) it is called, "Lucy Never Had a Bone to Pick -- She Loved Unconditionally": She was there when I cried, and licked the tears off my face; she was there when I rejoiced, and cavorted around, laughing with me. ... Even then, in those early years when the dog-expert books said I should scold her - and I did - she never stopped loving me nor I her. No matter what, she would finally smile at me, as only dogs can smile. And always, it would be a smile that went beyond acceptance. It was much more: It was pure. It was without contamination. It was something called love with no baggage, something most therapists would not be able to acknowledge. ... She was a dog who would never die, I thought, a Lucy who would continue to support me, who would be there, a dog who would see me through the darkest of anyone's worst imagination of what the bleakest days would be like. ... She was very sick, there would be no recovery. She doesn't, my husband said to me, want to leave you. I knew what I had to do. Her suffering could not go on, not for another day, not for another hour. ... For some time, I held her. I thanked her for being such a great pal. I kissed her repeatedly, on the top of her head and on her eyes. On her adorable nose and on her incomparable feet. On every part of the small body I had kissed at least a million times...
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