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Takeaways from losing my best friend

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Full disclosure: I didn’t watch a second of Celtics-Suns. Sorry if you came here looking for the usual day-after analysis and clips and the like. I just didn’t have it in me.

After a long battle with cancer, our 12-year-old Golden Retriever Mattingly took a rapid turn for the worse on Thursday into Friday. After a Hail Mary trip to the vet, it was determined that there wasn’t anything to be done. We could just make him comfortable and try to enjoy whatever time we have left.

That time proved to be shorter than any of us ever could have imagined.