Congruence (original) (raw)
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December 25 2012, 13:21
Dear Mischa,
You know that I love you. That love is something best taken at face value: it just is, and that's enough.
Sometimes, though, I wonder why I love you. I am (nominally) a human; you are a dog, and a fairly primitive breed of dog at that. How can two so very different species have evolved to live in such close communion, and with such a strong and mutually satisfying emotional bond?
Yes, yesyesyes, there are any number of theories about how your wolf ancestors came to forage at my human ancestors' detritus, and your greatgreatgreat_n_ grandparent and my great_n_ grandparent ended up becoming hunting partners, and from eventually we ended up selectively breeding you and, in doing so, evolved ourselves in small ways to be more compatible with you... but still, I find myself marvelling.
When we're cuddling on the carpet, though, with my arm around you and my nose in the fur on the back of your neck, that marvel just becomes part of the love that is. Dun't really matter so much. I just love you.
Love,
me.