My sweet, special most precious Rue. How much he gave me from the moment we met one April spring Saturday. Rue came to live with me when he was just a pup and I was in my twenties. Life simply changed, the timeline forever altered with a seam stitched between before and after. He loved swimming and sticks, shores, and being by his people the most. We spent many hours walking beaches from Cates Park to Crescent.

It was the two of us together all the time, until we met my now-husband while walking together in the park one day. Then Rue became beloved all over again, bringing us so closely together as the heartbeat of our little family. A soft-eared, spotted little star being, it was easy to love him more than anything. Rue remade me brighter and better into the person I know myself as now. He was my baby boy and my best buddy with his larger-than-life personality.

It has been the greatest gift of my life to grow up and older with you, Rue. Wherever you go now, you will always be with me and I will always be with you.
-Emma P, February 2026