I dare to believe.

A tragedy was who I was. A complete tragedy; someone living with a momentary fix for everything, someone who was just barely getting through the day, never feeling what it's like to be alive. All I had wanted to do... day in, day out... was to fall apart. I had nothing more keeping me together, there was no reason not to completely crumble into a thousand pieces.
And then my angel of mercy came along. How did she find me? Where she read my story?... I constantly ask myself that. Why did such a special, amazing, incredible dog come into my life? There was nothing, not a single thing I had done right up to that point. And then my Splisher comes along and changes everything. She took a wreck of me and turned it into something that is so much more... who I am now. She's my reason to believe, she's everything to me. I'd like to think that there was a reason for her to have come to me, to have been sent to choose me... it was almost like a second chance to me. A second chance to move me, a second chance to bring me to my feet again when no one else could. This dog has saved me, seriously. I'd be dead without her. Without her, I'd never known what it's like to feel alive, I would have never known what it's like to feel what one would call magic, what's it like to be brought to "Cloud 9," the feeling like nothing can touch you, or the feeling that brings you completely out of this world and into some other universe. That feeling that just fades to you and that one special soul... but most of all, she has taught me how to believe. She taught me something that I had never known nor even dreamed of risking for my entire life... it was the faith to risk believing. To go out there and just run with that reckless emotion. To feel alive, and believe in yourself every step of the way. To believe in fate and that everything happens for a reason, and believe that, through thick and thin, you will always end up where you are meant to be. She has taught me how to risk it all, and yet, dare to believe.

There is nothing I love more than being out there with this extremely special, amazing soul. There is seriously nothing I have done to deserve this. There is nothing that I would trade for this, not a single thing. There is not anything that makes me feel more alive than running my girly. And nothing else would have been able to change me as much as this dog has... she's really an angel of mercy. A true, incredible, amazing angel.

Only an angel, only a absolutely miracle could have saved me...
and that's exactly what Splash has done.
She's a miracle within herself, an angel. A bright, shining, powerful soul that has been able to beat what I once considered the impossible.

Yes, I do. I really do... I dare to risk everything I am; I dare to believe. I have been saved with this one second chance... one second chance to change me, to make me who I am today. And I'm never, ever, ever going to let this go.

So thank you Splash. Thank you so, so much, yet "thank you" compares none at all to what you have done. I wish there was some way I could show you how much you mean to me, how much you have changed me. But then again, that's impossible to do, yet I think you understand just perfectly. I love you, love you so, so, so much... forever and on.