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life lesson from a dog's near-death experience
I was blasting imagine dragons on my airpods and
not paying attention to anything else, but then I saw
the dog, a pitiful little stray right by the wheel of our
car. I’m not a dog person, so I felt no burning desire
to rescue it from the streets and its inevitable fate,
smashed under the wheel of a car on some busy
intersection or highway, but I panicked for an infinitesimal
second, a brief flit of time, when I saw its mellow
eyes staring up at me as it trotted closer to the
back right wheel of our car. I gasped, a quiet gasp,
and sat up a little straighter so I could distinctly
see it. I think it saw me, too, for a fleeting
millisecond. In that moment, a thousand worrisome
images flashed through my mind: the dog splattered
beneath the car wheel, blood, howls, my grandma
screaming about the little life taken, before the
car smoothly rumbled down the street and the dog,
tongue lolling out, trotted away, unmindful of the
second life it had received.
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