Eighteen hundred miles with Rosie
I never expected to see Rosie again. We'd said our goodbyes a couple of months before, when she was transferred away from the emergency animal shelter where I'd lived and worked all spring. I helped guide her into a travel kennel, bid her a quick farewell, and watched her go, fully expecting that this was the end of our time together, another brief intersection between the life of a dog and my own, poignant and priceless and quietly beautiful, but ultimately, in the grand sco