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Book Review of Marley and Me

Marley and Me
Marley and Me
Author: John Grogan
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Book Type: Paperback
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This was the perfect book for me to read right now. Of course, it brought me to tears numerous times, but in reading Grogan's eulogy to his dog, it brought back so many memories of my Buns. And Grogan really described exactly how I ache right now. I just hurt and he really captured that pain in beautiful words. But it also shed light on the pains that an elderly dog goes through and I wish so, so much that my Buns could've gone grey, deaf and blind, though a part of me acknowledges that I should be thankful that in that way, he was spared a lot of pain. He was running around less than 24 hours before his body collapsed and shut down, so I suppose there is some comfort in that. My poor, poor little Bunsy-baby...