I heard a song and thought of you my friend-

"We met it seems, such a short time ago.
You looked at me, needing me so.
Yet from your sadness, our happiness grew.
Then I found out, I need you, too.
I remember how we used to play.
I recall those rainy days, the fires glowed, that kept us warm.
And now I find, we're both alone.
Goodbye may seem forever, farewell is like the end.
But in my heart's a memory, and there you'll always be."

From Disney's The Fox and The Hound, 1981

PJ is now watching this movie a lot-he likes the fox and says the hunter is bad and mean and picked on the bear-a budding animal lover for sure. He also tells me that Riley is still sad cause "he miss him twin". Aww, we all do. For Mother's Day my dad made me a marker for your grave-it is a stone that he sanded and polished and painted your name and a paw print on it. It was a flat river stone that I found on a fishing trip years ago. It looks very nice-your little spot is ringed with river stones and a Halloween yard stake (small and tasteful as you would like) that has a black cat jumping over the moon and says Black Cat Crossing. I put the marker right in front of it. It's a good spot-the little birds in the tree over you are getting bigger and now are actually coming out on the branch-I can almost hear your teeth click while you watch them and wish a big gust of wind would push one in reach-you are a stinker. I miss you my friend.

Mom

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