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Old Jan 23, 2013, 02:24 PM
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Originally Posted by My kids are cool View Post
I kept dreaming about my cat who died last year. I didn't think it affected me that profoundly, but I guess it did. We're coming up on the one year anniversary. Kind of berating myself in my head. It's a cat, for goodness sake. The one year anniversary of my dad's death just passed, as well as his birthday, and in a couple of weeks, it will be the one year anniversary of my father in law's death, and I am dreaming about my cat and agonizing in the dream over not being able to find her.
Pets are surrogate children. It's perfectly normal to become attached to them and grieve their deaths.

If you don't miss them when they're gone, what's the point of having them?
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