A pet's death strips away pretense—there is no complicated history to rewrite, no unfinished business to rationalize away, only the raw fact that a living being who depended on you is gone. This grief is often dismissed as less legitimate than human loss, which is precisely why it can crack something open: it teaches you that love's measure has nothing to do with language or shared memory, only presence and the daily choice to show up.
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