LUKE CAPTURED THE HEART OF EVERYONE WHO KNEW HIM. HE HAD A WAY WITH THE LADIES. JUST ASK CINDER. SHE IS NOW HEARTBROKEN BECAUSE HER BUD LEFT WITHOUT HER.

LUKE HAD SO MANY NAMES. BUD, LUKEMONSTER, BUBBA BO,WOODTICK AND ONE SPECIAL LITTLE BOY ALWAYS CALLED HIM "THAT BIG DOG".

LUKE WAS A FANTASTIC TEACHER. HE TAUGHT ME HOW TO LOVE WITHOUT ASKING FOR ANYTHING IN RETURN. HE TAUGHT ME THAT A QUEEN SIZE BED IS NOT LARGE ENOUGH FOR TWO ADULTS AND ONE 80 LB. DOG. HE ALSO TAUGHT ME THAT FETCH WAS A GAME MOSTLY ADMIRED BY HUMANS. FETCH OR NOT, THE DOG GETS THE TREATS.

OUR LIVES WILL NEVER BE THE SAME. WHEN THE DECISION WAS MADE FOR HIM TO BECOME AN ANGEL IT WAS DONE WITH THE DEEPEST OF LOVE AND THE DEEPEST OF SORROW.

OUR MAIN THOUGHT WAS TO ALLOW HIM TO STAY JUST LONG ENOUGH THAT WHEN IT WAS TIME FOR HIM TO GO ON THAT HE HAD THE DIGNITY THAT HE SO CARRIED THROUGH HIS LIFE.

THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER LUKE. ANOTHER BLUE-EYED BOY WHO COULD MELT THE HEARTS OF EVEN THE MOST UNLOVING DOG PEOPLE.

I KNOW THAT HE IS WITH THE MANY FRIENDS HE HAD HERE WHO WENT ON BEFORE. AND IF I KNOW THE "LUKEMONSTER" HE IS SHOWING ALL THE OTHERS HOW TO GET TREATS AND NOT FETCH.

UNTIL WE ARE TOGETHER, OUR HEARTS ARE BROKEN.

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