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    When I Am Old

    When I am old...
    I will wear soft gray sweatshirts...
    and a bandana over my silver hair......
    and I will spend my social security checks on my dogs.
    I will sit in my house on my well-worn chair
    and listen to my dogs breathing.
    I will sneak out in the middle of a warm summer night
    and take my dogs for a run, if my old bones will allow...
    When people come to call, I will smile and nod
    as I show them my dogs...
    and talk of them and about them...
    ...the ones so beloved of the past
    and the ones so beloved of today...
    I will still work hard cleaning after them,
    mopping and feeding them and whispering their names
    in a soft loving way.
    I will wear the gleaming sweat on my throat,
    like a jewel, and I will be an embarrassment to all...
    especially my family...
    who have not yet found the peace in being free
    to have dogs as your best friends...
    These friends who always wait, at any hour, for your footfall...
    and eagerly jump to their feet out of a sound sleep,
    to greet you as if you are a God,
    with warm eyes full of adoring love and hope
    that you will always stay,
    I'll hug their big strong necks...
    I'll kiss their dear sweet heads...
    and whisper in their very special company....
    I look in the mirror... and see I am getting old....
    this is the kind of person I am...
    and have always been.
    Loving dogs is easy, they are part of me.
    Please accept me for who I am.
    My dogs appreciate my presence in their lives...
    they love my presence in their lives...
    When I am old this will be important to me...
    you will understand when you are old,
    if you have dogs to love too.
    -Author Unknown

    I AM old and this is important to me.
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    Beautiful!

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    Love it, kind of the way I am-old with my Gabe!
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    Love it! thanks for sharing.
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    Very sweet. Come here, Larky, hows about another smooch?

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    I saw it on Facebook this morning. Totally me in the future
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    Fran I am so there!!!

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    I am there too, have been for a while. But how come, when Oban and I are the same age on the doggie age conversion chart, he's no where close? Not fair.
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    Yup. *swallows lump in throat*
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    That is lovely. And, nearly there myself.

 



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