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Alice Higgins

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August 13th, your day. We would always spend your birthday at the beach. Most days, I still can’t quite believe you’re not here. Not a single day has gone by that I haven’t thought about you. I’m so grateful for our time and all the memories. Love you, babe. ❤️🐾 by @hikush

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2 months ago

Frank is 7! 🥳
We sang. 🎶 We co-worked all day. 💻 He got a new toy to add to his menagerie of friends (Richard the Duck. He goes by Dick.) 🦆 We went to the dog park for off-leash time and walked the trails. 🐕‍🦺 He can’t have special food or treats because he has the most sensitive constitution in the universe, and any minor changes give him diarrhea. 💩 We celebrated. 🎉
Happiest birthday to my tiny baby boy. These years go by so quickly. I cannot believe you’re 49. Thank you for all the love and joy you bring to my life. I truly don’t know what I’d do without you, especially these past 2 years that have almost broken me.💙 To many happy returns of your day! 💫♉️ by @hikush

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2 years. I miss you every day. Love you, Chloe girl. 🐾❤️ by @hikush

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7 months ago

I understand Halloween is over, but it’s certainly not Christmas yet. 🎃😉 by @hikush

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a year ago

August 13th will always be her day. 16 wonderful birthdays. They went by so quickly. I’d give anything to do them all again. So grateful for our time together. So sad it had to end. Love you always, Chlo. ❤️ by @hikush

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a year ago

Look how happy Glennon Doyle is to meet me!! 🤣 @glennondoyle

Never meet your sheroes, “they” say. Unless your shero is Glennon Doyle. She taught me never to listen to “they.” Who are “they” anyway? We stopped asking directions to places they’ve never been! @tish.melton @wecandohardthings

So very grateful for this opportunity and extremely special night with my cousin @alord26 at @freemanartspavilion. 🙏🏻📚🤓💃🏻 taken in Freeman Arts Pavilion by @hikush

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a year ago

Something blue tender moments with the most stunning bride. 💙👰🏻‍♀️ Making getting ready photos awkward because no one reminded me to put my dress on. 🙃 Our coven. 🧙🏼‍♀️ A little shoe repair. 👡🐚 Tiny hands, happy tears. ✋🏼🥹 4/6 slow cats. 🐈 Disco magic with the Dillinghams!! 🪩🐟 Alex and Dilly, I love you and your love. Thank you for having the wedding of the century, having us share in your celebration, and being such wonderful friends! 🫶🏼 #ofishallydillingham by @hikush

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a year ago

We woke up together every day for over 16 years. Today, it has been 365 days since I woke up with you.

I’ve thought about you for every single one of them. I dread the day the memories fade. I’ll never stop loving you, missing you, aching for you.

Your bed is right where it’s always been, and yes, it still smells of you. I dread the day the smell fades. I hate how far I have to scroll my phone to find photos of you. 16.5 years with you. 1 without. Yesterday was the day, today is the date. Arbitrary markers of time. I hate that time keeps going, the world keeps spinning.

You have no idea how much I’ve needed you this year, or maybe you do. Maybe you’re right there listening every time I cry out for you.

For many people, the loss of an animal companion in childhood is our first exposure to death. Is that why it hurts so badly? Because it reminds us of the very first time we truly understood that life was temporary, fragile, precious? That sometimes those who leave don’t come back? How easy that is to forget. How brutal it is when you’re forced to remember.

All I know for sure is that we found each other once, and we’ll find each other again. ❤️🌈🐾

My sleepyhead. 😴 by @hikush

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2 years ago

About last night…a series. ❤️ by @hikush

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2 years ago

Someday I’ll want to post something, anything, other than my dog, but not today. Today I miss her so, so much. Like every other day. We loved Halloween. 🎃 As you can tell, the hotdog costume was a fan favorite. 🌭The bumblebee should have made more of an appearance, and once our neighbor, Yogi, got to be a bee 🐝! If you met Chlocifer, you’d know the devil harness wasn’t actually a costume. 😈 She loved our era of passing out candy to trick-or-treaters. I’m so glad I got a few pictures of our last Halloween together. Now she has a costume shrine. It’s the Halloween version. I love you always, Chloe. 🧡

Happy Halloween! 👻 by @hikush

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2 years ago

She would’ve been 17 on August 13. 🌈💔My soul dog. I got Chloe when she was 8 weeks and I was 19 years old. If you know me, you knew her. We did everything and went everywhere together. People would often tell me they weren’t usually fond of little dogs, but there was just something different about Chloe. She had a way of weaseling her way into everyone’s hearts. 🥰 We were side by side through my most formative years. We finished college together, spent summers at the beach, moved to Boston for optometry school, flew all over the country ✈️, met her Dad, moved to Baltimore, retired in Florida, lost a brother, got married, gained a brother and a niece. She survived a couple of near death experiences.🔥 She never much cared where she was as long as she was with me. We were together; I forget the rest. She loved the beach more than anything. 🏖️It was the first and last place we went together. She particularly loved fishing with her Dad. 🎣We had many wonderful senior years, and I feel so unbelievably lucky to have spent the last 7 months of her life at home with her every day. 🍀She was so brave, always the boss lady taking on dogs 10x her size. She battled chronic kidney disease for 2 years with the same vigor and grace. She fought so hard to be with me every single day, right until the very end. Chloe never ever ever gave up. 💪🏼 She was my 8 lb warrior. I couldn’t have asked her for one more day. She gave me all the time she had, but she was never mine. She was of the Earth but from the stars and let me know when it was time for her go back. 💫It’s crazy to write about her in past tense. I’ve been putting it off for 5 months. They’ve been the hardest of my life thus far. Chloe passed peacefully at home in our bed on March 7. How do you honor 16.5 years in 90 seconds? What do you say when your very best friend, a literal part of your soul, is no longer on Earth? I love you so much, Chloe. I will never feel as special or as unconditionally loved for just existing. I am so grateful for your life, your love, and all the lessons you taught me. If there is an afterlife, we will find each other. Just go to the last place you saw me, and I will meet you there. ❤️🐾 by @hikush

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2 years ago

You could be an organ donor, the way you give up your heart. 🫀❤️🫶🏼 @sarahgremore
Happy birthday, Sarah! You are such a special soul who pours so much love and care into your relationships and the world. You’re just so easy to love. Thank you for being our Reverend, a good or bad influence depending on the situation 😉, for being so freaking hilarious and just so much fun. I adore you, sister. Here’s to many more celebrations and solar returns! 😘 by @hikush

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