Rufus Has Moved!, But he took my love and tears with him Options

[Gretta's Mom]

Hello Lightning Strikers

You have helped me so much with the passing of my beautiful black dog, Rufus. He is half black lab and half Newfie. Your words have made my grief and loneliness easier to bear and I hope some of my words have helped somebody else, too.

Rufus, I am going to try again to make you a big green "welcome" message. I hope it works but I'm pretty sure it won't!

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Well I see I have failed again, but know that all the animals in this part of Lightning Strike welcome you.

Have a beautiful day, My Big Black Dog!

Your mom

[Gretta's Mom]

Good morning Rufus, my precious big black dog!

A little disaster has struck your mom/ The little grey car that we used to drive around in has been smashed up in the back by some kind of drunk driver last Saturday night. It really flattened the back end of the care where you and Gretta used to ride. The man hit my car and then ran away. He hit my car so hard that it was pushed forward 10 feet, into the next parking space and hit the car in front of me and pushed her into a no-parking space. I really wanted to get the car out of that neighborhood so kids wouldn't cause further damage by hitting it with rocks or baseball bats. Yesterday a big truck came there and picked my car up and too it to a shop who would fix it. It's pretty banged up and it wasn't that expensive a car to begin with and it's five years old so the repairs might cost more than the value of the car so they will just give me a check and I'll have to look for another car. When I was working and making and saving money, this would have been no problem, but now I am living off Social Security and a little pension, so it's going to be much harder to pay for it. But the good Shepherd will make a way for me as He always has.

Have the very best day you possibly can up there in the Perfect World. Romp around in the sun with your cousins. your sister and all your friends. Spend some time with the dad and with Trevor's mom. And then lie down in the shade and drink some cool water. Someday I'll be there with you and we will be together forever. I'm taking good care of the piece of your heart that you left with me and I can feel how good you are taking care of the piece of me heart you took with me.

Thank you for choosing me to be your mom and loving me more than the mountains that go up to the sky.

I love you, Rufus.