Throwback Thursday: Pink Sweater and a Black Dog

For Throwback Thursday, I present a photo from almost exactly 17 years ago.

April 7, 2001.

I still have those 18K gold hoop earrings, but the colorblocked pink turtleneck is long gone. Alas, so is Molly, my parents’ black Pekingese. She lived to a ripe old age and then departed for the big doggy bed in the sky in 2009.