Good-bye, My Lady - Prologue

Good-bye My Lady by James Street is a book that I read in high school but never forgot. It is your basic story about a country boy who finds a stray dog. He takes in the dog and they become best buddies and are essentially unseperatable. All is right with the world but there has to be a twist in every story. During a trip to town the boy discovers that his dog actually has a previous owner who is offering a reward for the dogs return. Tormented with the prospect of loosing the dog he wrestles with himself over being selfish and keeping the dog or doing the right thing and giving the dog back to its rightful owner. In the end he returns the dog and collects the reward, which he uses to buy his grandfather a new set of false teeth which he had been needing but couldn’t afford.

In some ways life can be like this story. With people and things coming and going within our lives we have to make choices either to hang on or let go. Sometimes it is in our control and sometimes not. The tale I am about to tell is about a lady. A rare lady of virtue, love, patience, and long suffering. We will just call her Lady.