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- From: rich@genie.slhs.udel.edu (Rich Schwartzman)
- Subject: The Circle
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.163609.16924@genie.slhs.udel.edu>
- Organization: UDel, School of Life & Health Sciences
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 16:36:09 GMT
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- The circle is complete.
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- On October 21, 1981 I returned home to find Laughter whelping on my bed.
- Four pups had already been born and six more would follow before the night
- was through. One of the first four, I knew immediately, was going to be
- staying with me, and I knew his name had to be Lightfoot. He was part
- collie, part Belgian Shepard, part Alaskan timber wolf.
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- 22 months later Laughter was gone and I had to nurse Lightfoot through his
- mourning her loss. Three months after that, Feets and I moved from
- Spartanburg, South Carolina to Amsterdam, New York. From Amsterdam to
- Philadelphia to Newark, Delaware, Feets was there. He never played with a
- ball or played tug of war. He did nothing but spend his time being a
- friend, companion and, to some, he was my four legged son.
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- Shortly before 8pm on Wednesday, December 30, 1992 I signed the papers
- authorizing the euthanasia. His kidneys had failed and there was nothing
- that could be done. He went out with his head in my lap.
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- From the moment of his birth to the moment of his death, my scent was with
- him. Lightfoot is gone. The circle is complete.
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- | Richard B. Schwartzman, RBS Communications |
- | Media Coordinator, DE. Libertarian Party |
- | rich@genie.slhs.udel.edu |
- | (302) 455-0354 |
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