My Dearest Vada,
I can’t believe I have to say goodbye so soon.
You only came into my life a little over a year ago, and now it’s time to say goodbye.
You were my dream, a tall handsome fella, with the most beautiful eyes I have ever seen. I knew that day I met you that you would be mine, you captured my heart with those eyes that looked right into my soul. Some people did not see what I saw in you, they only saw the skinny knobby kneed fella, not the holder of my heart. You are my first, my hero.
If only you were only eighteen, and not much older as later determined. Heaven only knows what you went through in your life before me. Those once beautiful legs gnarled with arthritis, and the body so deprived of nutrition. How could someone not care about such a wonderful creature as you? Such a loving soul, so gentle.
I had to set you free, free from the fatigue and the pain. I could not let you continue to suffer.
Run free my Boo Bear, until we meet again.