“I endure a lifetime of missing you for the privilege of loving you.”
“I never knew a love so pure until I met you. I never knew a silence so loud until I lost you.”
This is for Maddox…
My greatest love & best friend, whom I had to say goodbye to in September 2025. His presence & his love profoundly reshaped the way I see the world & myself, opening new ways of understanding what truly matters & the heavy heart he left behind.
Unconditional love, as I learned it from Maddox, is a love that can never be replaced, neither by a human nor by another animal. Our bond was unique, a love that gave me a sense of home, a connection that existed as a pure symbiosis, lived entirely through energy.
Losing him felt like losing a piece of my heart & an entire home. And grief doesn't come with an expiration date. When you lose a dog, a soul dog, you don't just lose a pet... you lose a best friend, a loyal heart & a piece of your world. People may expect you to “move on,” but they don't understand that you don't simply get over that kind of love. You learn to live with it.
Maddox taught me that letting go requires courage, that love & pain can coexist & that every goodbye holds the seed of a new beginning.
My big boy, I thank you for your loyalty, your patience & your unconditional love. It is your legacy & I will carry it in my heart forever.
I miss you until I join you.
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This poster series holds thirteen lessons Maddox taught me (in German, our language), one for each year of his life, including the eleven years we shared after I adopted him in 2014, when he was a two-and-a-half-year-old bundle of energy. Each lesson carries a fragment of who he was & a memory he left behind. Together, they form his lasting legacy.
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