title: Coping with Sorrow on the Loss of Your Pet: Third Edition
author: Moira Anderson Allen M.Ed.
description: Moira Allen has never known a time in her life without pets! And so she also knows first-hand what it means to lose a beloved companion. Allen is a professional writer and a former editor of Dog Fancy magazine. She has written widely on pets and pet care; her articles have appeared in such publications as Cats, The AKC Gazette, ASPCAs Animal Watch, The World of Professional Pet-Sitting, Whole Cats Journal, Dogs Today, and many others. Allen holds an M.Ed. in counseling from Boston University. She currently lives in Maryland with her husband and (at present) one cat. For more information, visit her pet loss website, The Pet Loss Support Page.
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  Pet Sematary
  
  Stephen King
  
    
    
    
    
  
  For Kirbey McCauley
  
    
  
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  The sale of this book without its cover is unauthorized. If you purchased this
  book without a cover, you should be aware that it was reported to the
  publisher as “unsold and destroyed.” Neither the author nor the publisher has
  received payment for the sale of this “stripped book.”
  
  AUTHOR’SNOTE
  
  Special thanks are in order to Russ Dorr and Steve Wentworth of Bridgeton,
  Maine. Russ provided medical information and Steve provided information on
  American funeral and burial customs and some insight into the nature of grief.
  
  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are
  products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance
  to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely
  coincidental.
  
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