My Wife Told Our Daughter to Say She’d Just Gone for Groceries — The Second Phone in the Drawer Told the Real Story
It was the day I got my daughter’s childhood back.
Chapter 18 — The Dog
That German Shepherd I had been working the day everything happened — the young one clearing the ramp in the afternoon sun while my phone rang — finished his training a few months later, and passed his certification, and became exactly what I had been shaping him to be, which was a service dog.
I have thought about him a great deal, and about the strange fitness of the timing.
My whole profession, the work of fifteen years, is the training of animals whose entire purpose is to protect and to help — to be steady when a person cannot be, to carry a load a person is not able to carry alone, to stand between the vulnerable and harm.
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