A Woman Went to a Shelter to Adopt a New Dog After Seven Years of Regret—Then She Found the One She Never Stopped Loving

workplace, a local call center, shuttered its doors with only three weeks of notice. My savings, already decimated by my mother’s protracted battle with illness, evaporated instantly. My boyfriend left, not with a flourish of cruelty, but with the cold, resigned sigh of a man who no longer wanted to participate in the tragedy of my existence.

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