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

for without fully preparing herself for. Harold’s heart and his joints had reached the place where the treatments available were less than what the body required.

She brought him home.

Neighbors appeared at the door with casseroles and flowers and handwritten notes. Children from the school bus stop left drawings on the porch. The woman with the sweaters continue reading …