Mike Paterniti
speaker
232 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 28 Jun
Mike Paterniti’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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In a weird way, I wonder if we felt betrayed.
Betrayed because Jeff had broken the simple rules of the cemetery.
He'd become too intimate.
Now he was gone, and it was hard to say hi, let alone catch someone else's eye.
During those dark winter months, the cemetery became a kind of haunted, trustless place.
In one of the endless conversations we had about him later, some people worried that he knew where we lived.
Someone threatened to track him down.
But what for?
So that he might never again bamboozle other hapless dog owners in other seaside towns into chatting about doggy shampoo?
Sarah and I kept the Christmas card on our refrigerator, right up until a couple months ago, actually, when it quietly fell to a new rotation of refrigerator photos.
We kept it there in hopes, I think, that he would come back and explain where he'd been, for I was pretty certain he couldn't have robbed a bank.
And if he had, I told myself, maybe it was because he had to.
Maybe he'd been inches from a life he'd imagined for himself, with a dog that gave unconditional love, with friends he was guaranteed to see every day, and he'd had a couple of bad breaks, got sick, ran out of money, lost his dog, and then panicked.
Now time has passed.
People come and go, and every six months the galaxy inside these gates breaks apart and reconfigures.
Dogs die.
People leave for nursing homes.
Others move.
More arrive.
And every day, today even, people are here walking in spectral circles like they're in Mecca, circling the Kaaba.
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