Step Eighteen: Dedicate a Book in Someone’s Honor
Write one final story at the end of your career. Make it about the Mare you used to know. How you used to think she was crazy. How you wanted to bury her alive for being so god dammed perky all of the time.
How you would have liked to drain the life out of her neck with your bare hooves for always having a bounce in her step. How despite all of that, she was crucial to you surviving your junior high and high school years.
How you only realized how important she was to you in retrospect. How you wish that you could have had a chance to tell her that she was your best friend. How she was the thing (not poetry or Eriskay Princely) that ended up saving your life. That she will never know how much she meant to you then and probably never will.