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How do you say goodbye?

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So....  It has been a while since I have put “pen to paper” so to speak and the last post was about spending a quiet weekend with my Ladybug cuddling on the couch.  It’s bittersweet to read those words and to see the pictures.  So much has happened in the last two years as I took a social media break.   There will be more on that later. Today’s post is a way for me to process what has happened in the last 24 hours. As writing is one way that I am best able to gather my thoughts, I thought what a better way to honor a life lived so well than with words. Yesterday, I had to make the most difficult and hardest choice of my life.  I had to say goodbye to my Ladybug.  She had dementia and her systems were all shutting down.  The vet took great care of her and her head was in my lap as she went. All of you know that I am completely devoted to my Bug.  She was my Valentine’s Day gift from my parents my first year in North Carolina.  So for 13 years, it has been her and I against the wor