It had always been his dream-he should live it! I deferred admission to Barnard College so I could take a gap year and focus on my dog-walking business and volunteer at my grandpa’s assisted-living care facility. Not in the fun way.)ĭash and I have been together two years, and although I’m not usually selfless when it comes to letting go of the people or animals I love, I actually encouraged him to go to Oxford. He got into Columbia, which would have kept him in New York City and made me very happy, and he got into Oxford University, which, as an Anglophile and a booklover, made him very happy, with the ocean’s distance from his parents a big bonus. It’s too long since I’ve seen his face, in any expression! He had two great choices last spring before we both graduated high school. I am determined to bring him some smiles this Christmas. (If he heard me say that, it would instantly disappear and threaten never to come back.) Dare I say, it could light a whole Christmas tree. It’s so pure, maybe because it’s so unexpected, and never forced. I don’t want to seem like a needy girlfriend, but I kind of live for those rare moments of Dash’s smile. Things that will: a hipster Instagramming their walk through the park and then slipping on that great dog’s poo toddler twins using their yogurt tubes for a sword match that quickly escalates into a not-so-cute food fight involving a lot of sand and angry parents or a cab discharging an arrogant Wall Streeter directly into an ankle-deep puddle of water. Things that I think should provoke a grin, like a great dog, or cute toddler twins stumbling around a sandbox like drunken pirates, or a rained-on person finally hailing a cab, won’t turn his frown upside down. It’s like it’s my job to turn his holiday scowl into a smile.Ī happy-looking face doesn’t come naturally to Dash.
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