RIP, Molly

You showed us how to make a graceful exit

Molly Flynn, the Bearded Lady: photo by author

The problem with dogs is that they don’t live long

Not long by human standards, that is. If Molly had been human, she wouldn’t even have had her driver’s learning permit. But Molly was a dog — a very, very good dog — and, at only weeks shy of her 15th birthday, she was also a very, very old dog.