When Dogs Leave Us: A Teenager’s Perspective
My family’s dog, Riley, died recently. He had kidney failure, and was gone in less than a week. My father, a writer, told us we should be writing about our feelings and memories. Here’s what I wrote…
“The dog I’ve grown to know and love Is now in heaven up above.
In his heaven there’s squirrels and trees. He runs through the yard with an easy breeze.
There are couches galore and a pool, too,
And that is most definitely the perfect shaded blue.
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