They threw her into the Atlantic in the middle of the night. The next morning

Just like he clung to that board for eleven hours.

Marcos never leaves. Sometimes they stay like that for almost an hour, both of them looking at the Atlantic through the window.

A colleague asked him why he lets her do it every night.

Marcos looked at the dog sleeping next to his chair.

— Some people talk about the will to live as if it were just an expression. I pulled them out of the ocean with my own hands. She clung on for eleven hours because she believed that if she let go for even a second, she would disappear.

He paused.

— So if you still need to hold on to something safe…

She smiled.

— He’s earned it.

Do you think animals understand something about love and loyalty that humans sometimes forget?

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