On June 12,1999, my best friend died. Only a few hours after I had came home from my aunts house. My best friend was a dog named roxie mr mom always told me that the day she brought me home from the hospital that roxie never really left my side. She was a collie mix lab. My mom,dad,and I all think that she held on to the last bit of her life for me to get home from my aunt's for one week. So we could see each other again. Probably right after I went to sleep is when we think she died. Because the next morning i got up and opened the front door. Because she had to stay outside because she didnt have the strength to move herself and we couldn't because she was so big. She wasn't moving. I went back to the sofa where i had slep and cried until mom came in. Its been so long and i still miss her. She was really more of a sister to me than a dog since i am an only child. Now we have had other dogs since then but none were as good as her until about 3 months ago we adopted a dog. one day when i was sick and couldn't go to school. i started to feel better do i went with my mom and dad to wal-mart, it wouldnt have mattered if i had of gone to school because i was going to six flags. But there was the animal shelter there selling puppys and i fell in love with a german shephard puppy and so did my mom. That dog is so well behaved and acts so much like Roxie did my mom thinks if there is any such thing that she is a rencarnation of Roxie.....We named her Lucy. Thanks so much for reading this if you did. I found out about this site from one of my moms friends not long after roxie died.