https://lanie.work/tags/separation/ Recent content in Separation on Lanie: Faith, Tech, and Advocacy Hugo en-us Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://lanie.work/advocacy/the-dog-who-chose-me/ Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://lanie.work/advocacy/the-dog-who-chose-me/ <p>The day Squeaker chose me, I was in pain.</p> <p>It was 2015. My mom was riding with the mother of one of her friends when they saw a tiny puppy walking down the middle of the road, trailing a broken leash with a duct-taped collar. My mom didn&rsquo;t want to stop. Her friend&rsquo;s mother insisted. They picked him up.</p> <p>The other woman already had little dogs. We didn&rsquo;t have many animals and didn&rsquo;t want more, so my mom assumed the woman would take him home. Instead, when they got to our house, her friend&rsquo;s mother brought him inside and left him there. She was done with the story after that.</p>