Molly: A love story

I will never again say, 'She's only a dog.'

Normally, just after an election, I would write about politics. But the very thought made my hair hurt. So I wrote this instead.

It was my husband’s idea in January of 2019 to get a puppy to share the twilight months of our 15-year-old yellow lab, Ginger. Only flagging energy and arthritis slowed down Ginger’s sociopathy: running away at every opportu…