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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

X-rays yesterday showed why Dax's limp has become so bad. He has 
cancer in his left shoulder. I couldn't see the x-rays real good 
because my eyes were pretty wet but I could see them enough to know 
he won't be with us for long. Got some pain pills and we will enjoy 
him as long as he seems to want to be here. Then he will receive his 
final injection and we will bury him up under the dogwoods where I 
will one day be planted. Not sure how Benny should be involved. If 
Dax just disappears one day he will wonder what happened to his 
buddy. If we let him see the body, what will he think? If he sees us 
burying Dax, what will he do? They have been like brothers since we 
brought them home ten and a half years ago.