You can buy love, and it's warm, and furry, and it loves you when you are silly, and it never, ever, sees you as a failure.
Boy, if this sentence doesn't speak volumes.
I mean, do get what she's TRYING to say - the love you receive from a dog is almost entirely unrequited. Everyone in the world could hate you, but your dog will still view you as something of a minor deity, lavishing love and devotion on you.
But Jesus CHRIST, Laurell. Some of us actually have enough self-esteem that we don't ALWAYS need some other living being out there to make us feel like we're a complete human being.
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Date: 2007-09-05 01:43 am (UTC)Boy, if this sentence doesn't speak volumes.
I mean, do get what she's TRYING to say - the love you receive from a dog is almost entirely unrequited. Everyone in the world could hate you, but your dog will still view you as something of a minor deity, lavishing love and devotion on you.
But Jesus CHRIST, Laurell. Some of us actually have enough self-esteem that we don't ALWAYS need some other living being out there to make us feel like we're a complete human being.