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Fall Foliage Postcards from the White Mountains

Fall Foliage Postcards from the White Mountains

A correction to yesterday’s post

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Oct 03, 2021
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Emily during her first week with us FOUR years ago, not five as I wrote yesterday.

Do you ever feel like you’ve earned a reprieve and cannot believe your good fortune? That’s how I am feeling after realizing my error in yesterday’s post.

We all know a dog’s life goes by far too fast, but I cheated Emily of a year on top of that. In yesterday’s post I wrote how she came to live with Samwise and me five years ago this October. Typing those words, the pang of a life rushing by sat like a pit in my gut. How did so many years fly by?

Thankfully, I erred. The Divine Ms. Em came to us four years ago, not five. Now I feel as though I, too, have gained a year!

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