history: While I was in college my dog ran away back home and was never found.  My mother had been taking her on a walk in a park and my dog fell down a cliff.  I dreamed about her every night for a month at school, and hoped I'd get a call saying she was found, but she never was.
current: My dog disappeared while I was away at college.
next: That's so sad, I'm so sorry you had to go through that. How did it happen?