They Told Me I Could Only Take One Dog Home Until I Saw What Happened When They Tried to Separate Them

puppies required an energy she no longer had. Something older, she told herself, something already past its demanding phase, a companion that would settle beside her on the sofa during the evening news and not require her to become a different person than the one she had quietly become since the house emptied out.

Her youngest son had left for college continue reading …