Thank you all... friends and new to be friends here. I savor each word... and use them to process this grief. I knew I would grieve, but this is more than I expected. My companion, my comarade, is gone.

EJ perhaps God sent your beagle to greet Figaro, along with mandy's and ster's and simon's and wants2 and blackdOg's... and those that I may have missed... of course either he is just non existant and doesn't feel anything now...or he is no longer suffering and quite happy (whether he remembers his time with me or not..)

The grief, of course, is for me and my loss. Guess I got a bit selfish there, eh?