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

not arrive all at once. It came the way grief recedes and is replaced by something that is not the absence of grief but its transformation into something else, something that can be lived inside of. Margaret did not try to make it happen quickly. She had learned from Harold and Beans that patience was not passive. It was its own form of loyalty.

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