At some point, even the greatest misery begins to fade. Life, or what passes for life, plods on in it's own unending weary footsteps, and somehow we plod along with it, if we stay lucky.
So many nights, I stared out at the inky black ocean, believing that if I could only learn how to eat again and keep my hands out of my throat, that would be enough. I prayed hard and desperately to God and the sun and the moon and the ocean and the universe and every shelter dog I__ ever met, as if they were all genies, that I wouldn__ ask for anything more.But perhaps God isn__ a collection of genies, and perhaps it__ okay to hope for more than relief. To hope big. To hope for Sunny__ limitless capacity to love.
Pound for Pound: A Story of One Woman's Recovery and the Shelter Dogs Who Loved Her Back to Life
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So many nights, I stared out at the inky black ocean, believing that if I could only learn how to eat again and keep my hands out of my throat, that would be enough. I prayed hard and desperately to God and the sun and the moon and the ocean and the universe and every shelter dog I__ ever met, as if they were all genies, that I wouldn__ ask for anything more.But perhaps God isn__ a collection of genies, and perhaps it__ okay to hope for more than relief. To hope big. To hope for Sunny__ limitless capacity to love.
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