Reply #9: She was a good girl...some kind of Lab mix, reddish and portly, and

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absolutely attached to me, after Mike went away to join the Marines.

Odd that Lady bonded with me, not with Cookie or Sandy (though Sandy wasn't around that much at the time).

There's some catharsis for me, here in this thread...I did not even recognize it at the time but I absolutely, utterly shut down emotionally and psychologically, and in all the other mental senses after Mike died, for about nine months...I remember his burial on a cold, rainy day up there in Scranton, but not much thereafter, though at the same time I also had a horrible blood disease that cost me a half of a year of school.

Not a pleasant time.

But, as Mrs R says, why re-live that time now?

I think she's right.

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