Are you Anthony Ortolani by any chance?
Makes ya wonder.
And there’s this:
Author: Unknown
If tears could build a stairway,
and memories a lane.
I would walk right up to Heaven
and bring you back again.
No farewell words were spoken,
No time to say “Goodbye”.
You were gone before I knew it,
and only God knows why.
My heart still aches with sadness,
and secret tears still flow.
What it meant to love you -
No one can ever know.
But now I know you want me
to mourn for you no more;
To remember all the happy times
life still has much in store.
Since you’ll never be forgotten,
I pledge to you today~
A hollowed place within my heart
is where you’ll always stay.
How many of us would gladly build that stairway to have our beloved dogs back?
And this schmuck won’t walk up a friggin’ hill he’s climbed *dozens* of times, already.