An elderly man living with Parkinson’s discovered a shivering senior dog at his gate — and somehow, their unsteady bodies became a source of calm for one another.

sitting in my chair. She gave us both zigzag lines for arms and legs.

“What are those?” Rebecca asked carefully.

“Our wiggles,” Lucy said.

Then she drew a heart around the two of us.

I pinned that picture to the refrigerator.

It remains one of the most accurate portraits anyone has ever made of me.

Part 6 — The Winter We Almost Lost Her

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