9 Years Ago My World Changed
3 min readNov 10, 2020
When I was a kid I had a dog. She was a giant, gentle, german shepherd-labrador mix. She slept next to my bed. She kept a watchful eye on my siblings and me. I have a home video of her running and jumping to see me as my parents brought me home from the hospital. She was my best friend. I loved her dearly.
She died when I was nine. I cried with all the fury that a nine year old boy who doesn’t understand the…