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special dog. I think my friends get tired of me telling our dog story, but I am going to recount it anyway in tribute of a very special dog that came into our lives 10 years ago and passed away peacefully yesterday. We had just moved to Las Vegas and one of our children was not doing well adjusting at their new school. We had gone to a lot of trouble moving to a school district with good ratings, but bullying and indifference can occur anywhere and we discovered it found us again. I was beyond desperate to help this child that was retreating further into her own reality and less in ours. Night terrors and auditory hallucinations filled her mind. We were desperate to find help. One morning, in the space between sleep and awakening, the following thought came through my head. " Get her a dog. Animals are our guardian angels on earth". This surprised me as I had always enjoyed animals, but never thought of them in this kind of role. I did not relate this to my daughter and ,fr...