This is the long version of a post I made this week. It's been a week since my beautiful Border Collie Callie died. Trying to figure out a routine without her has been anything but easy. The house is silence and hollow. Over the last week I have reflected on many things that have been going through this overthinking mind of mine. I'm not sure these reflections are lessons but they are thoughts that have swirled in my mind this last week. Things that she taught me, she reveal

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