Kids and their dogs - made in heaven?

One of the most devastating things that happened to me as a child was the sudden loss of my pet dog, a loveable, spunky mutt named Brownie. He broke away from my mother's grip on his leash and got hit by a passing car. It happened while I was in school, 4th grade, so I was 8 going on 9.

We never got another dog or pet for that matter. For my mother, it was the second dog she had lost by misadventure in her life. And she couldn't bear to chance losing another beloved animal. I was angry, sad, confused, mad at the universe. It took me a while to recover but I've never owned another pet in all these decades since.

So this comic strip brought back many thoughts. If only the universe were so configured that a painful void like this could be so magically refilled.

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