Posted by Dinah on June 10, 2005, at 17:29:22 [reposted on June 11, 2005, at 10:09:30 | original URL]
In reply to How will I cope when Hammy dies?, posted by Deneb on June 10, 2005, at 15:38:50
How long do hamsters usually live?
I recently lost my beloved dog. It hurt like h*ll. Loss hurts, and there's no real way around it. You just have to live through the pain until you get to the point where you can smile again when you think of them.
I lost my most beloved dog of all eighteen years ago, and it still hurts. I can still see every freckle on her little foot, and remember how her skin felt under my hand. I was listening today to one of the songs that I used to play over and over after she died. Even though I don't generally feel songs anymore, I felt tears with that one.
After someone I love dies, my father included, I generally do something as a testament to how I felt about them. When the last dog died, I had a photo purse made of him. When my beloved died, I had a portrait made from a photograph. Two actually, one with me, one without. And put photos of her all over the place. There's still one gazing at me on my desk at my office. When my daddy died, I put together a couple of photo albums of pictures of him from when he was little till when he died, and brought them to the funeral.
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