For two years, a grieving mother visited her son’s grave every Sunday, where the same mysterious dog always seemed to be waiting. Then one morning, the dog appeared at her home carrying something she thought was lost forever. But why?
The cemetery was quiet the way only Sunday mornings could be, with dew still clinging to the grass and the wind soft enough to feel like a whisper against my coat.
I walked the same gravel path I had walked every week for two years, carrying a small bundle of yellow daisies because they were Ethan’s favorite.
My son had been gone since three weeks before his eighth birthday, and every Sunday I came here to tell him about the neighborhood he no longer got to see.
“Mrs. Callahan finally painted her shutters, baby. That awful mustard color you used to laugh at. She picked blue this time.”
The wind moved through the trees, and I pretended it was an answer.
I had been doing this for two years, and for one of those years, I had not done it alone.
He was already there when I looked up.
The same scruffy golden retriever mix, no collar, lying on his belly beside Ethan’s grave with his chin resting on his paws. He watched me with calm brown eyes, the way a person keeps quiet company at a wake.
He did not move.
He never did.
I had learned to sit a respectful distance away and pour water into the little bowl I kept tucked behind the headstone.
I set out a handful of kibble beside it.
“I asked around again, you know. Nobody knows you.”
I had spent the better part of a year trying to solve him.
I had asked the groundskeeper, who only shrugged and said the dog never bothered anyone.
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