Man's & Woman's best friend... Shadow, my best friend died...

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First let me apologize to all the crazy people I see doing weird and wonderful things for their pets. I understand now. Unconditional love, it's pretty cool. For years I refused to have a dog because we lived in the city and I like to let a dog run. As a kid we had a few dogs but they were never really mine. We lived on a farm then and the dogs were for protection and for keeping rodent populations down. My boss at the time told me his mother's dog was having pups and we were welcome to one if we were willing to drive the 4 hours to his moms farm. I've never done anything so foolish. Drive 4 hours to see a pup. Well we drove for four hours and it was worth every second. She was the runt as the say. The smallest of the litter and the only one that was almost totally black and I like black. I picked her and she has been my best friend since. Shadow just seemed to be the name to go with. She followed me everywhere just like a shadow. That was our first choice for a name and that is what we stayed with. When Shadow for about 4 years I had an in-operable heart attack that caused damage to my heart, my world as I knew it stopped that day. Shadow never left my side for 3 years as I slowly healed. We were tired of living where we were because our neighbors were not really that nice, so we bought a new home. This was a move that we needed and the fact that we were now home owners was awesome. All was well for a week or two when Shadow started to act really strange. Unfortunately I thought it was just because of the move but it wasn't and in no time we had to take her to the vet she never came home with us. It has been almost a year now and I still can't talk about Shadow. Heck it took me almost an hour to type this one post. But maybe that will be good for my soul. Take a few minutes and longer if you need to but share an experience about a pet that fills your heart with joy and sadness...