As I sat in the sun on the wooden dock that jutted out into the pond, I knew this to be true: my name was Buddy, and I was a good dog. - W. Bruce Cameron

Humans are so much more complex than dogs, with such a broad range of feelings — though there were many times I missed the Yard, for the most part I was now living a far richer life, even though I often didn’t know what was going on.

Sometimes that happens to us, way before we’re ready, a moment that changes everything. Life will be going along, like normal, and then one day without warning you find out that nothing will ever be the same.

I had fulfilled my purpose.