For years she dreamed of owning a dog. She got Checkers. He was an exuberant undisciplined mutt, with a heap of attitude. His white and black coat had passers-by pointing and laughing. It looked like a mosaic of tiles that had been smashed, then re-assembled. A bit like her life really. And somehow she has to piece it all back together. Only then might she understand why it fell apart in the first place. (Source: Trove)
