“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.” C.S. Lewis
We never planned on getting a dog when Riley happened to us four years ago. He has become a "momma's boy." Now, I can't imagine life without him. I dread the day he's no longer around...but I don't want to think about it. (maybe I'll go first? :) ) But like the quote says, it's better to have had and loved him than not to take the risk and have missed out. He's far from perfect, but then, aren't we all and others still love us despite our faults.
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