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You may not be physically with me anymore, Risa, but you were such a part of me that you’ll never be truly gone.<\/p><\/div>\n

It’ll be 4 weeks tomorrow since I said our final “good bye.” It seems like no time at all and an eternity all at once. I’ve handled your passing better than I thought I would. Probably because I knew it was coming and had been mourning you for months prior to that final decision. Also because I knew it was the right choice for you. Even though I don’t think either of us was ready for it. I’m thankful I had a couple days to spend some special time with you and take you some places. And spoil you with food. Life’s cruelest joke to you: your love of food and your inability to eat so much of it without it destroying your gut! But you had some apple, a donut from a local bakery (not from Dunkin!), some pizza, cheese, hot dog (the local specialty), tons of McDonalds fries, and a bowl of chocolate chip ice cream before you passed from this life.<\/p>\n

I still mourn for you. I miss kissing you between the eyes, rubbing your ears, and rolling the excess of neck skin you had between my fingers. I miss how good it felt to wrap my arms around your chest and hug you even if you weren’t always as into it as I was. I miss your smile; it never ceased to warm my heart and was your best feature. I miss everything you were to me. I know Kyu misses you too. He worshiped the ground you walked on since the day he arrived.<\/p>\n

I sent a small donation to the shelter I adopted you from to help other dogs find their special person (or people). And I fully intend to do exactly what I did while you were still here to honor what you were to me. I will continue to support pet rescue. I will continue to teach dog training classes so that people can have great relationships with their dogs like the one we shared. I will again open my home to foster rescue dogs to help them find their perfect family. Everything you taught me will be passed on. It’s the best way I can honor you.<\/p>\n

I hope, someday, I can have such a close relationship with another dog. Ours was close by necessity; I had to know you intimately to help you learn to cope with the world. Through that necessity, I learned that the best way to train any dog is by discovering what they need and listening to them. That we’re both a part of the process and communication goes both ways. I’ve still got a long way to go on my journey. . .but you started me in the right direction.<\/p>\n

Thank you, again, for everything.<\/p>\n

“It well may be that we will never meet again in this lifetime. So let me say before we part. So much of me is made of what I learned from you. You’ll be with me like a hand print on my heart. And now, whatever way our stories end, I know you have rewritten mine by being my friend.”<\/i> For Good<\/b> –Wicked<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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