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Losing My Beloved Dog: A Love Letter to Guiding Eyes

Losing My Beloved Dog: A Love Letter to Guiding Eyes, by Terry Funk-Antman. Photograph of her dog, Sundae
Sundae, in the garden she loved to trample

A story of love and loss — of a pup once trained to be a guide dog — who captured the heart of her trainer instead

In 2007, I became a puppy raiser for  (an organization that provides guide dogs for the service of people with vision loss) and brought home a beautiful little puppy named Sundae. Little did I know what would unfold in my

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