[Gpdd] Bridge: Flint

[Algernon07 at aol.com]

Dear Lisa,
     How completely I relate to your feelings of somehow being responsible 
for not being able to save little Flint. I felt so sad for you and so 
understanding of how you feel. I still feel that way and a year and a half later 
sometimes but I truly don't believe that either of us or of the many other who feel 
so personally responsible did anything wrong. Yet, we couldn't achieve the 
impossible.
     But how the thing continues to replay in our minds. Over and over.
     You are NOT a bad guinea pig slave -- just one who is heartbroken and 
grieving. 
     We feel that we are bad GP parents because we tried too hard to help or 
that we didn't try hard enough.
     Think of your little guy bouncing around on the other side of the Bridge 
-- all the muchies he could ever want and in the company of so many wonderful 
guinea pigs who await their other friends and their people.
     I've cried over your post -- its all so real, so truly human and 
touching. You loved him and having them go hurts so terribly.

May God comfort you,
Alge and the quieted Jolly Rodents