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Dimitri Gavriel Remembered
In his own words. Plus much else.
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Dimitri Gavriel
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11/2/04
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p> MATURE FRIENDS br> Re: Ben Stein’s Christmas Peace : /p>Your article really hit me where I lived. I lost both my dogs last month from cancer (within two weeks). Millie, an exuberant 10-year-old yellow Lab who wagged her tail from the shoulders, and Nick, a shy 14-year-old Lab cross you’d swear was not a day older than 8.
A dog’s life is so short. They give you all they have to give, heaped over and overflowing. Then the bill comes due and you pay it with heartbreak and tears. It would be a poor return to regard the anguish you feel as less than you owe. Only someone whose cupidity I can’t even imagine could think this was anything but a tiny price to pay for so much.
I’ve had a dog in my life ever since I can remember. I am a widow now, and you cannot imagine how horrible it was to come home to a house where there was no other sentient being.
p>I again have a dog — an 8-year-old darling amalgam of Chihuahua and Cattle Dog that fills my life. As an old woman it would really be unfair to adopt a puppy, or even a very young dog — I don’t really have the energy to give. An older dog is just my style. If the thought might pass that my girl due to her mature age might seem to be an undesirable adoptee, I dismiss it. I cannot think so badly of the human race.
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