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    a difficult memory

    Abby

    December 1st, 2005

    Girls,

    I just got back from the vet's a little while ago. My dear Abby fell asleep with her head in my lap to never awaken again. It was painless for her and quick -- very quick. I had hopes of getting through this dry-eyed until I could get home but that was some kind of macho bullshit wish. The tears, like the rain here today, came in swells even before I could get her to the vets.

    Abby died with her eyes open, both of them clouded with cataracts. When I laid her head down it was between her two front legs and she looked so much like she was still there, just laying there looking around like I've seen her do a thousand times before. They were kind enough to give me a few minutes alone with her. I just kept petting her and telling her how sorry I was.

    At the moment it doesn't matter that it was the right thing to do for her. It just hurts -- terribly.

    Dad

    Hard to believe it was 4 years ago today. It was one of the hardest things I've done to sit there with her as the vet put her to sleep -- it tore me up inside much more than I expected even though I thought I was expecting the worst.

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    Oh a sleeping drunkard up in Central Park / Or the lion hunter In the jungle dark

    Or the Chinese dentist or the British Queen / They all fit together In the same machine

    Nice, nice, very nice
    Nice, nice, very nice
    So many people in the same device

    Oh a whirling dervish and a dancing bear / Or a Ginger Rogers and a Fred Astaire

    Or a teenage rocker or the girls in France / Yes, we all are partners in this cosmic dance

    Nice, nice, very nice
    Nice, nice, very nice
    So many people in the same device
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