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>I read (actually try not to) all these gut wrenching, heart breaking
>painful posts of losses. This is a very naive question but ... how do you
>fellow readers, read these things and get on with your day? I read a post
>like the one about Josie and am nearly in tears! It takes me hours to get
>over it, and it didn't even happen to me!
Anonymous Poster,
You are not alone.
A wise FML poster once said something along the lines of "When we have pets
with shorter life spans than our own, we set ourselves up for heartache".
So true.
I generally try to skip these sad posts. Not because I don't care. I do
care. When I lost my first ferret, I cried for three days. When I lost my
second, I was able to hold it together a little better, but still shed a
lot of tears, so I know what the posters are going through. It's just that
when I read them I always reflect on my two who have passed on and end up
with tears streaming down my cheeks. In fact I write this with tears in my
eyes having read the poems posted tonight (tonight in my corner of the
globe). I'm just glad that I receive the digest in the evening and there
is no one here to see me when I lose it. Who said big boys don't cry?
It hurts when a ferret passes on, but nothing helps to (partially) fill
that hole than another ferret. When I lost my first ferret, I didn't think
I could ever care for another. In fact it was about four months before I
could even contemplate it. All I can say is that it subsequent deaths
seem to get a little easier, but it is never easy to handle death, in my
experience.
-David, Thor & Grover
RIP Xena & Rumpatumpskin.
[Posted in FML issue 2650]
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