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It\u2019s been hard since the girls left for college. Sometimes I find myself lingering at work. I\u2019m vice president of a fine-arts printing company. Eventually, though, I head home. I pull into the driveway.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s when I see him. Our dog, Cubby, standing on top of an armchair\u2014he\u2019s obviously jumped up there from the couch\u2014watching out the window for me. Yet when I open the front door, he\u2019s sitting on the couch, tail wagging, as if he\u2019s been there the whole time.<\/p>\n

He bounds from the couch, landing at my feet. Then he jumps up and tries to give me a kiss. I bend down and let him.<\/p>\n

You were right, Alice, <\/em>I think. The house would feel so lonely and sad without him. <\/em>I wonder if Cubby misses her as much as I do. He couldn\u2019t miss her more. Then again…<\/p>\n

Alice and the girls dragged me to that dog adoption day in May 2013. Yes, I drove us there, but only because I was outnumbered. That\u2019s what happens when you live with three strong-willed women and they join forces. Not fair.<\/p>\n

At lunch Ella, 19, and Caitlin, 17, had escalated their campaign to get a new dog, telling me Home for Good Dog Rescue was holding an event at a park nearby. I\u2019d reminded them why it wasn\u2019t the right time for us (our first dog had died the previous year).<\/p>\n

\u201cYour mom\u2019s gone twelve hours a day for work,\u201d I said. Alice was on the road a lot training hospital staff in using medical software. \u201cAs soon as summer\u2019s over, Cait, you\u2019ll be wrapped up in your senior year. And Ella, you\u2019ll be back at college. I\u2019ll be the one stuck taking care of the dog.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cCan\u2019t we just go look?\u201d they pleaded.<\/p>\n

I turned to Alice for backup, but she had the same question in her eyes. How could I say no when she looked at me like that? I\u2019d never been able to, not since we started dating in college.<\/p>\n

At the adoption event, the girls made a beeline for the puppies. I stayed put by the first cage. That was as far as I was willing to go. I saw our girls playing with a pint-sized border collie. I glanced at Alice and shook my head. Too young. Too much work.<\/p>\n

Then my gaze fell on the dog sleeping in the first cage. He was good-sized but not quite full grown. He lifted his head and looked back at me.<\/p>\n

Something about the soulful expression in those brown eyes got to me. \u201cCan we see him?\u201d I asked a volunteer, not sure what had come over me.<\/p>\n

\u201cSure,\u201d she said. \u201cWe think he\u2019s a shepherd-Shar-Pei mix, about ten months old, already housebroken. He came from a shelter down South and is being fostered here in town.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alice waved the girls over. We sat on the grass. The dog clambered into our laps, giving us kisses. He even flopped contentedly onto his back for belly rubs. \u201cWhat a sweet boy,\u201d Alice said. \u201cYou know, George, the house feels lonely and sad without a dog.\u201d<\/p>\n

What I knew was, we wouldn\u2019t be going home without this <\/em>dog!<\/p>\n

Right away our new puppy made it clear he was family. Whatever we were doing, he wanted to be part of\u2014eating, laundry, watching TV, sleeping. He followed us around the house.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe reminds me of my best friend when I was growing up, Laura,\u201d Alice said. \u201cShe was always trailing the rest of her family, so they called her Caboose. Cubby, for short.\u201d Cubby it was.<\/p>\n

Cubby was so affectionate with everyone. No sign that he\u2019d been abused, which is sadly common with rescues. \u201cHe must have been a really good dog to someone,\u201d I said to Alice one day.<\/p>\n

In August we drove Ella to Virginia Tech for her junior year. The one she had the hardest time parting with was Cubby.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

The trip was rough on Alice too, not as much emotionally as physically. She was having an abnormally heavy period. She chalked it up to pre-menopause (she was about to turn 50).<\/p>\n

Two weeks later, the bleeding hadn\u2019t stopped, and Alice had terrible pelvic pain. I took her to the hospital. The diagnosis was devastating: uterine carcinosarcoma, a rare cancer, highly aggressive. It had already spread from her uterus to her abdomen and lung.<\/p>\n

Alice took the news far better than I did. Part of it was her personality\u2014spirited and direct. Part of it was her family history. Several close relatives had succumbed to cancer, including her mother, who died of lymphoma at 40.<\/p>\n

Part of it was her profession\u2014she\u2019d trained oncology teams on software. Specialists discussed her options with us. The terminology was over my head. Stage 4B. Distant metastasis. Palliative care. But Alice understood.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo chemotherapy could cure this?\u201d I asked, confused.<\/p>\n

Alice took my hand and said calmly, cutting to the chase like always, \u201cNo. I don\u2019t have long. I am going to die.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, she wanted to try chemotherapy in the hopes that it might give her one last Christmas with us. Three weeks after her first round, complications with her lungs left her too weak to go upstairs. We set her up with her oxygen tank on the couch in the family room.<\/p>\n

Cubby knew. He stopped following us around. He only wanted to be with Alice. He parked himself by the couch, right where she could reach him.<\/p>\n

I often saw Alice dangling her hand, stroking his head weakly. \u201cLove you, Cubby Bear,\u201d she\u2019d whisper. I worked from home in another room. One day Cubby kept pacing between the rooms. I finally followed him.<\/p>\n

Alice was watching a movie about a mom dying of cancer. She was crying uncontrollably. Cubby looked at me as if to say, I couldn\u2019t take care of her this time. Can you?<\/em><\/p>\n

I turned the movie off and sat next to my wife. \u201cI don\u2019t want to die,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know,\u201d I murmured, feeling as helpless as Cubby must have. All I could do was hold Alice until she fell asleep.<\/p>\n

That first round of chemo turned out to be her last. Alice died in the hospital just six weeks after her diagnosis. Ella, Cait and I were with her.<\/p>\n

She wasn\u2019t lucid enough to know Cubby wasn\u2019t there; she thought he was, and I believe that brought her a comfort that even the girls and I could not.<\/p>\n

In lieu of flowers we asked that donations be made to Home for Good Dog Rescue. A month later, I got a call from HFGDR\u2019s founder. She said thousands of dollars had poured in, all donations in memory of Alice.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what she would have wanted,\u201d I said. I told the woman how Cubby never left Alice\u2019s side during her illness. \u201cWe feel so fortunate to have adopted a dog with a heart like his. He obviously came from a loving family.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLoving family?\u201d She paused. \u201cCubby was one day away from being euthanized when we picked him up. He was severely malnourished. He didn\u2019t trust anyone and cowered whenever we approached. It took his foster family weeks to get him well enough for adoption.\u201d<\/p>\n

I looked at Cubby, lying at my feet. I knew it was no accident he\u2019d been given a second chance. He was meant to join our family, to love and comfort my wife in a way only he could.<\/p>\n

And not only Alice.<\/p>\n

With the girls away at school, it\u2019s just Cubby and me. At night, when I\u2019m ready to turn in, he bolts upstairs ahead of me and jumps on Alice\u2019s side of the bed.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Once I\u2019m settled in bed, he\u2019ll lie with his paw touching me or his head on Alice\u2019s pillow. He stays there until I fall asleep, and he\u2019s back on the bed again when I wake up in the morning, those soulful brown eyes looking into mine.<\/p>\n

I feel like he\u2019s telling me, I know you get sad and lonely without Alice. I miss her too. But we have each other. That\u2019s what she wanted.<\/em><\/p>\n

The dog I didn\u2019t want is the dog I can\u2019t imagine living without.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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