When a Scruffy Little Dog Refused to Let an Old Woman Disappear

way she knew how—by slipping hope into a dog’s saddlebag and sending him out.”

I met her eyes.

“Love and loneliness can coexist,” I said. “It doesn’t mean the love wasn’t real. It means the world we’ve built makes it very, very easy to drift apart and very, very hard to admit we miss each other.”

She covered her mouth, a sob escaping between her fingers.continue reading …