Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Family Travel / 14

Every year my cousin’s husband sends out a ten page single-spaced Christmas letter of prodigious honesty. The year before last was particularly awful. There were three deaths, two of them sudden, there were cancers and surgeries with lingering complications, as well as knee injuries and a house fire that nearly got out of hand.

Then, in November, their beloved Golden Lab Muttlee died of kidney failure at age 10.

God. I couldn’t help it. I laughed until tears streamed from my eyes.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Ha! I can so picture it.