His joints ache, his eyes get cloudy around the edges, and sometimes he forgets where he was going halfway down the hall.
But at night, when he curls against my bed and lets out a long sigh, I feel this strange steadiness, like Grandma is still here, supervising from somewhere I cannot see.
A dog on a dog bed | Source: Midjourney
Sometimes I hold his tag in my hand and run my thumb over the engraving, over the code that changed everything, and I think about how she hid the biggest thing she owned on the smallest, most ordinary object in her house.
She used to say, “If you want to know who someone really is, watch how they treat someone who cannot give them anything back.”
Turns out, the person who needed that lesson most was actually Zack.
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