An ex once gifted me a dog like this, named Tiki. I carried him everywhere which led to numerous pee spots on my clothing. I decided then that my abundance of love did not cover the extra laundry costs. Tiki now lives with ex' parents in a little castle of his own.
I envisioned the letter pages long. But woke in the middle of the night with words already memorized. And there it was, a friendship's beginning and end summed in just under two paragraphs.