After my grandmother passed away, my mother had a difficult time dealing with the loss. But then she became convinced that a certain star was actually my grandmother. She now takes comfort in her nightly walks with her dog, and her conversations with my grandmother.

Of course, I don't believe my grandmother is a star. But there's no convincing my mother otherwise. It's her way of dealing with the loss.

I'm very sorry for the loss of Luna. She was a special lil chameleon. Sometimes people get caught up in discussions about whether our pets have souls, whether they can truly show emotion, or are we simply wanting to see them in our own image. I for one don't truly care for the final points of this discussion. In the end, it doesn't really matter whether they can TRULY love us, or feel for us how we feel for them. The important thing is that we TRULY love them. We truly feel empathy for them. And yes, we truly feel loss at their passing. It's these feelings, I think, that make them part of us.
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Victor Gomez

gomezvi@yahoo.com

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