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- I hope that sinking into the darkness of a slumber will briefly let me forget and hide my sadness.
- Max still feels deceived since the illness struck suddenly rather than drawing out the grief for weeks, if not months.
- Jake’s eyes snap open, and he quickly turns to the side. But like his aching heart, the spot where Max always sat on the couch remains empty. He takes in a long, deep breath – really more of a sigh – and squeezes his eyes closed.
- 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.
- I thought you might be in here. I miss him, too, Jake. More than you’ll ever know.
- Though he knows that in some ways he should be thankful for just having their time together – those moments forever etched in his heart. That somehow, he is missing years that could have been.
- I guess you do know, don’t you, Jake.
- 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
- 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 seems to wait patiently, ever ready for that next big adventure.
- It is then he hears a shuffle from behind and turns to see Martha standing in the doorway, her shoulder resting against the frame. There’s a faraway melancholy tone to her voice, but he knows that her heart, like his, has a hole too big to fill.
- His head drops and he gives off another long sigh, which seems to prompt her to come over and kneel down onto the carpet beside him. She slides a hand under his chin and lifts it up, then tucks back his long, floppy ears, such that their teary eyes can meet.
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