| 1 | I drove to the animal shelter that afternoon. | |
| 2 | My mother brought me to the hospice two days after my request. | |
| 3 | I met Connie the day she was admitted to the hospice ward, where I worked as a volunteer. | |
| 4 | And with one long last look, I turned and left the hospice. | |
| 5 | In the nineteen-twenties it was the asylum and the shock treatments. |