Candy, I'm so sorry for your friends and all they have been through.

And I'm sorry that you're feeling badly too.

Obviously, the pups were not meant to be this time. Nature works in mysterious ways and I'm sure it was better this way for the health of the pups and the mother.
I think that things happen for a reason. It's very hard to accept loss and pain but in the end, everyone learns something and things have a strange way of working out.

I know what you mean about all the pain and suffering in this world....and some people seem to have more than their fair share of it.
Kathi and Bob are lucky to have you as a friend and I'm positive that something good will happen soon.

Chin up!! Or I'll be forced to post another silly story regaling you all with my antics in my quest to obtain a "well-behaved" Duncan!!!