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Even if those days are gone, they will still live on, because this is our life and this is our home, and you're never alone.

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An agreement between best friends is a special and important one. 
You're seeking a friend and companion, and I'm here to serve you, love you, keep you company every day, keep you humble, keep you moving, and most of all remind you to be kind, be happy and share your love. I won't ask for much, just a promise between friends, that you will show me kindness, affection, patience, adventure, and most of all a full life lived. 

I know there will be times we may gnash teeth, and if you snap, I will snap back - I will stand my ground with you and let you know when something's up, I know you will do the same. I promise to be fair, to be brave and to be true to you and the pack we build together. Please listen to me when I need you, because I will always listen to you when you need me. I will be your shoulder to cry on, and you will be mine. As long as we stand by each other we will never be alone. Promise that you will always come back for me, no matter how long it may feel, as long as I know you are coming home, I will always be there to greet you with a happy smile, an excited sneeze and an invitation to play and forget about your troubles of the day.

Let's build a home together, and if we decide to invite someone new into our life, I reserve the right to give my opinion. After all, if I'm looking out for my best man, I want to be sure they will treat you well, will be fair, be loving and promise to cherish you, me and our pack, defending against all odds. My home is with you, with my people. You are my people, and I will be yours.

Thick and thin, ups and downs, I will make sure you get out of bed every day. I promise to greet the day with a shake, stretch and declaration to you "the day awaits." Let's share a life worth living, and give it the attention and energy it deserves. I will give you some slack for the weekends, and I will honour the code of doggie snooze, but you only get one per morning before I insist - can't have us doddling when there is life to be lived, after all!

Let's go see the world, and share in the journey! I will do my best to join you and keep up with you, but give me a chance to adjust, these things you call road trips are a lot to take in. My job is to be your home, and my place is at your side, no matter where we go, there we will be... together. Show me the pristine beauty of the snow in winter, and let me fully sniff around; share those slow, hot days of summer in the mountains by a lake with me; show me the vastness of the coastline and ocean beyond - but know I am a land lover, so this whole water thing is suspect to me. Let's run and play, at home, on the beach or anywhere in between. Let's cuddle and snooze. Let's be the best of friends through the day and night. Where ever we go, and who ever we meet, I promise I will be inquisitive, mischievous and kind.

Let me smile, let me roam and let me be my own person. I want you to be your own person, too. I want you to succeed, and I want to be there to share your greatest delights, and your biggest disappointments. Nothing is off-limits, come what may we will see each other through, that's what we are here for, to make life a little easier and a little brighter for each other. For those lonesome, sleepless nights you may have, or when you're nursing a broken heart, always know you are loved, and you mean the world to at least one person in this world; likewise, when I have my long, sleepless nights, please be patient with me, but more than anything, please don't leave me alone. Please be there for me in the moments when I need you most, because you are my world, and I can't do this without you. 

We are going to get to know each other in ways few can know, and even fewer will see, and that's how I know you will do right by me, and in turn by you and those around you. That's what will make those shared moments deeper and more delightful, because you are never alone.

Now for the bad news, my love. There will come a day when I will start to need you more and more. I will need to slow down and it will be your turn to get me out of bed in the mornings. Let's share my morning stretch, some face rubs and time taking in the morning air. I will need you to be patient and know me well enough to know what I need and when I need it, especially as I may start to forget or miss things. Give me lots of love and extra time to go about my day. I know you are the most important part of my day, and I trust you to make me the most important part of yours. It's that shared partnership and knowledge of each other which will ultimately hurt the most one day, because when my time comes, I need you to know me well enough to see it and most of all, accept that all good things must end.

You are my people, and with you I am never alone, even when it comes time to let me go. I never want you hurt or be without love, and I trust you, I love you; but there will come a time I am no longer myself, and I know your love for me will keep you by my side, determined to make the most for me in my final years, for that I thank you. Just know you are never alone, and right up to my last breath, I will love you, stand by you and trust you. That's our agreement we make as best friends. I look out for you, and in return you look out for me. Even when those great days we have shared are gone, they will always live on, because this is our life and this is our home, and you're never alone.

You're never alone.

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