Melissa Bernard, Saying Goodbye (PEOPLE 2022)

My son's best friend and fur sibling for 9 years was diagnosed with severe kidney failure and we brought him home to live out his final days. This was a moment captured on the floor of my son's bedroom, where he was saying goodbye to Jabba.

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