Marley & Me

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Marley & Me is a wonderful story about how the worst dog in the world changed the lives of the Grogan family. John and Jenny Grogan are newly weds from Southern Michigan but as Jenny plans their new life, it included transferring to a warmer city, finding a job and a house and starting their new family. Everything seemed to fall into place except that John was not ready to have kids yet. And so following his bestfriend Sebastian's suggestion, he got a dog, a labrador they named Marley.

Jenny and John dubbed Marley as the world's worst dog, chewing on anything he sees, jumping hard on anyone, kicked right out from obedience school, pooping anywhere he likes, drinking from the toilet bowl and howling mad during thunderstorms.

But after sometime, the couple were ready to take everything into another step, including having a baby. Jenny was disappointed at first but they finally had little Patrick. They were having a lovely family time together until Jenny announces she was pregnant again. When little Conner was born, Jenny left her job to be a fulltime housewife to take care of the kids as they left for a safer neighborhood. But as time goes by, Jenny becomes frustrated with having to stay home alone with the children and battle with Marley's everyday mess. She got to the point of wanting to send Marley out and so John brought Marley to Sebastian to stay for a couple of days. John found out that Sebastian was moving to New York to take on a new job and he somehow wished he would make a career move too. But Jenny apologized later, telling John she was just overwhelmed with everything and having to give up her career. They made up and Marley comes back to them.

Another baby was born in the Grogan family, a little baby girl named Colleen. And as the family becomes bigger, Marley stays with them until the time they moved to Philadelphia into a new countryside home with big lawns and with snow that all of them enjoyed including Marley.

Everything was going fine until Marley got sick and there was no way he could be healed and it seemed that he was just biding his time. When Marley finally died, the entire Grogan family mourned deeply, the kids writing him letters and Jenny giving him the necklace he once swallowed. He died and was buried outside their house but his memories lived with the Grogans forever.

Marley & Me is a very moving story of family, relationships and love. Eventhough Marley did not seem to be a model and adorable pet everyone loves, Marley is one of the best things that happen to the Grogans.