“Mom, I never expected it to hurt this much to say goodbye to Mills,” my daughter texts me after she and her husband decided to give a stray they had found to a foster dog-mom. How tender to hear these words from your grown daughter? We learn that things can break you, or break you open. But I know the strength of my child, and from my mother heart, it was as if I was watching her emerge out of a soft cocoon and grow a larger, more complete self. But the journey was full of u