A White Lab

I want to share the weirdest thing that ever happened to us. I have never been able to express my feelings about it. It happened.

I was raking the blanket of acorns in our front yard. We had a massive oak tree that produced a prolific crop of acorns each year. I was taking a break, sitting on the front steps with Bacall. Our neighborhood did not have any outside dogs, but a white lab appeared and walked directly towards us. He did not solicit petting. He looked at Bacall and put a paw on her breast. The one that had been cut and radiated. He held his eyelock with her for a few seconds, then turned and walked away.

We watched him for a few seconds, looked away, and when we looked again, he was gone.

We asked all our neighbors if they had ever seen a white lab in the neighborhood. No one had.

20 years later, Bacall is cancer-free.

Make of it what you will.