In hindsight, I find it interesting and almost a little spooky that I had this dream the day before we got Hana. It's almost as though Lily was trying to tell me that it would be all right, and that she would live on in a different way... I'm not saying that Lily was reborn as Hana or anything ridiculous like that, but the timing of that particular dream, and how meaningful it was, is peculiar. (Also, they both came from litters of ten puppies, which is a a very unusually large litter size, and the first thing Hana ever brought to me was a sock--which Lily used to bring to me to play fetch all the time.)
I just read that dream and tears well up in my eyes.