ON THE DAY THAT I WAS GETTING READY TO ADOPT SMOKIE, I HAD A TERRIBLE COLD AND WAS UNABLE TO LEAVE THE HOUSE. ONE OF MY FIEND'S OFFERED TO PICK UP MY LITTLE MAN FOR ME. I CALLED MY FRIEND AT THE VET'S OFFICE TO SEE HOW THINGS WERE PROGRESSING AND HOW MY BABY BOY LOOKED. I WAS TOLD THAT I WAS IN FOR A BIG SURPRISE! I HAD SEEN PICTURES OF SMOKIE AND HIS BROTHERS IN THE NEWSPAPER, BUT THE PICTURES DIDN'T DO JUSTICE FOR WHAT I WAS ABOUT TO SEE. I WAS TAKING COUGH MEDICINE WITH CODINE SO AT FIRST I THOUGHT I WAS HALUCINATING WHEN I FIRST LAYED EYES ON SMOKIE JOE. HE LOOKED LIKE YODA FROM STAR WARS! HIS LITTLE YEARS WERE QUITE POINTED STICKING OUT ON EITHER SIDE OF HIS TINY HEAD, HE LOOKED LIKE HE HAD A BAD PERM FOR HIS FUR WAS VERY CURLY LIKE A LITTLE SHEEP. HE ALSO HAD A VERY LONG TAIL WHICH HE KEPT TRIPPING OVER SINCE THE TIP OF IT WAS BROKEN AND HE ONLY WEIGHED ABOUT A POUND. THE THING THAT ALWAYS STUCK OUT ABOUT OUR MEETING WAS THE BEAUTIFUL BLUE EYES HE HAD AT THE TIME, I FELT LIKE HE LOOKED RIGHT INTO MY SOUL AND THE CONNECTION WAS SO INTENSE! OUR BOND CONTINUED TO GROW STRONGER EVERYDAY AND WE WERE INSEPERATIBLE WHEN EVER I WAS HOME WITH HIM. AT THE TIME I WAS GOING TO SCHOOL SO WHEN I WOULD SIT DOWN TO STUDY SMOKIE INSISTED THAT I HOLD HIM IN THE CROOK OF MY ARM SO HE COULD NAP WHILE I WAS STUDYING AND WHEN EITHER ONE OF US WAS DONE WITH WHAT EVER WE WERE DOING FIRST, IT WAS PLAY TIME. WE HAD SUCH FUN TOGETHER, I MISS THOSE DAYS SMOKIE JOE AND I LOOK FOWARD TO THE DAY WHEN WE RECONNECT PERMANENTLY AND WE WE'LL NEVER BE APART AGAIN! I LOVE YOU SMOKIE AND I MISS YOU WITH ALL MY HEART AND SOUL! MOMMY