Dear Mimi,
This is the first year not celebrating your birthday with you. It’s been less than a year since you’ve gone on your way now but it feels like it’s been forever. I hope you’re happy wherever you are now, playing nice & making friends in doggie heaven. You should know we all miss you very much and Mom even sometimes thinks that you’re around saying good night to her. I think it’s just her dreaming but it shows how much she still misses you. You would’ve been 16 years old today and we would be coming home with some sort of new toy or some ridiculous clothing that we would stuff you in and take endless pictures. Oh, the things you had to put up with. I still miss your grumpy face; not so much the smelly ears though. I know even though you didn’t shower me with slobbery kisses everyday, you had your own way of showing you cared. Like sleeping in my room when I was in Waterloo, or playing hide and seek with me when we were younger. I miss you!
XOXO
<3 you always and forever
