JAKE comics h.e 12-b JMP
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- JAKEby: Jim Bartlett
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- Illustrated by:Peralta, Janah M.
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- For fifteen years they were inseparable. Always side by side. The walks on the beach with the gentle waves calling, the seagulls cawing. All those hikes on the trail where the trees canopied over like arches, wrapping them in a soft cool shade on a hot sunny day. Even just a ride to the grocery store for something Martha may have forgotten, they always went together.
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- Though he knows that in some ways he should be thankful for just having their time together – those moments forever etched in his heart. Somehow, he is missing years that couldhave been.
- The sickness took Max quickly rather than dragging out the pain for weeks, maybe even months,
- As his eyes well up, he realizes for the first time how much his grief weighs, how hard it is to even rise with such a heaviness inside.
- It seems I waitpatiently, I ever ready for that next big adventure.
- Unable to sleep, he looks around the all too empty room, letting his gaze fall upon the leash, which still hangs from the peg by the door.
- It is then he hears a shuffle from behind and turns to see Martha standing in the doorway, her shoulder resting against the frame.
- She looks down at him for only a moment before her stare drifts to the couch. There’s a faraway melancholy tone to her voice, but he knows that her heart, like his, has a hole too big to fill. She slides a hand under his chin and lifts it up, then tucks back hisl ong, floppy ears, such that their teary eyes can meet.
- “I thought you might be in here,”
- “I miss him, too, Jake. More than you’ll ever know.”
- “I thought you might be in here,”
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