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Dr. Laura.com. Anita, welcome to the program.

Hello, Dr. Laura. It's a pleasure to speak with you today.

Thank you.

The reason I'm calling is, you know, I'm having an issue grieving over a pet.

And just kind of give it a little background. My father... May I just ask you what that

sentence means? I have an issue grieving. Grieving is a process. What issue can one have about grieving? I don't

understand. It's a real deep grief. It's worse than what I felt when I've lost some close

people in my life over the last couple years. Yeah, Anita, Anita, a lot of people experience that. There's something unique about a human dog

relationship. They love us unconditionally. They're adorable. They stand by us. There is no human

relationship, which is as pure and clean as that.

So if you're criticizing yourself because of the depth of your sorrow and missing,

let me tell you, stop judging it.

It is what it is.

We don't measure it and we don't compare it.

It's what you feel for losing this dog.

That's huge.

So I don't need to hear what happened.

It's unnecessary.

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