Hey guys. I just lost my 15 year old dog, because she needed to get put down, is there anyone else who this has happened to? This is really up setting to me because I had her for a long time. I know that I posted a couple of things so far, and I didn't really want to talk about it. I just signed up like 2 hours ago, and after looking at this app, I see how nice people are. If anything like this has happened to anyone else, I will be happy to talk to you about it. Love u guys, happy holidays.

Read the excerpt below from the poem "exile" by julia alvarez and answer the question that follows. i let myself lie back in deep waters, my arms out like jesus' on his cross, and instead of sinking down like i'd always done, magically, that night, i could stay up, floating out past the driveway, past the gates, in the black ford, papi grim at the wheel, winding through the back roads, stroke by difficult stroke, out on the highway, heading toward the coast. which literary device is used in the comparison between the speaker's experience of fleeing the country and floating in the ocean? i let myself lie back in deep waters, my arms out like jesus' on his cross, and instead of sinking down like i'd always done, magically, that night, i could stay up, extended metaphor symbolism simile theme