Kelly shares an excerpt from Jessica Fein's new book Breath Taking: A Memoir of Family, Dreams, and Broken Genes.\xa0In Jessica's words, the memoir is "The story of building, loving and losing a family.\xa0 How I learned to live in the present and create a world of joy and beauty in the midst of loss and tragedy."\xa0 The excerpt shared here is, "A Girl's Best Friend" and is the story of Jessica's daughter Dalia's very special dog, Blackie-O, a loving canine companion who essentially trained himself to be Dalia's service dog.\xa0\xa0\n \n \nTo learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy\n \n Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices