For those of us who fight it out for 13th place...

[LiveLoveLaugh]

Might be some comfort

[bansaisequoia]

[gryhnd51]

Thank you all for your sincere and heartfelt comments. We alll know that to share our lives with a beloved pet will more than likely end up in heartbreak. But at the same time, they enrich our lives so significantly!

best wishes to all of you

Beth

[MoreMadMunch]

To share our lives with anyone beloved (man, woman, beast) will end in heartbreak.

And that is called... mortality.

It sort of sucks. And life is short.

On topic: I asked my friend, a practicing Catholic, what she intended to give up this Lent. The answer, verbatim: "being nasty."

She nailed it. What else matters? You wanna talk about giving up something enjoyable...

As for you, my galvanized friend, you want a heart. You don't know how lucky you are not to have one. Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.

Wizard of Oz

Andrea