music that made you cry

[Nicodemus Phaulkon]

Note: My apologies to any of you who have lost people or have had experiences worse or much worse than the loss of a dog (or two). To you, a loss of a dog may be trivial, but at those times of my life, dogs were as much of the family as anyone else, and I've never yet lost any person close to me (*knock knock*), never married a preppie girl who died of cancer, etc. But I am now a father, and now I can understand better the "it's just a dog" viewpoint. I disagree with it, but I'm less in the "dogs are no less than people" camp than I used to be. But I cannot comprehend how people who lose their only child or all their children can go on living, at this point in my life I just can't understand it -- maybe once the teenage years come that'll change

Loss is loss. Sorrow is sorrow. Love is love; how, to what and when it's given matters not. The fact that I've lost a father to cancer doesn't dimish your loss and doesn't decrease any sympathy I feel for your losses. I'm certain you feel the same in return.

(So now I'm trying to get my wife to agree on getting another dog, and not letting her getting anything wimpy yappy or fluffy...)

Tell your wife that anything non-feline that doesn't stand AT LEAST to the height of your knees is categorized as a "rodent"... and that you want a "DOG". ;)

*tips helm*