Mike loved dogs.

I had a chocolate Lab when Mike and I met. He probably wouldn’t have noticed me had it not been for my dog.

He grew up with dogs – Tags was one, and there might have been a Tags II. During our years together we had Molly and Hershey (pictured).

He called Hershey a “West Virginia Brown Dog.” He adored her. 

She died in 2019, after his diagnosis but before he started chemo. I know things worked out as they were meant to, but I will always wonder if a dog might have made his last years happier.