My piece for mydogstories.com, a story that took me 6 years to write.
"It’s been six years since I lost him and I never mustered up the courage to write a word about the pain I feel every time I think about him. I never wrote the story of one of the greatest losses I experienced in my adolescent life because writing about it would make it real."
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