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I'm sitting here today, two days before Christmas, so disgusted with the world, people in general and our state.

I'm writing this because I just lost my best friend of nine years, my dog, Mia. She went running one day after getting away, found something bad and it caused a lot of suffering on both sides, hers and mine.

You see, when she came home, she was acting like she had a stuck bone. It's wasn't no bone, it was plastic. I got it. I thought all was fine.

She continued to go forth with life. Stopped eating and drinking, started having seizures and blind times and losing control of her bowel. She got so embarrassed when that happened.

Two and a half weeks of not knowing why, I finally gave up and let her go to her friends in the sky.

Why? Why? Why don't we have clean ups on our dirt roads? People are everywhere. Not just along highways.[[In-content Ad]]

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