In 2003, Christi Turner adopted Lexi from Second Chance Boxer Rescue, and Turner calls Lexi the "best little thing in the world." Less than a year after she was adopted, Lexi started losing a lot of weight. After many surgeries, tests, money and heartache, Turner lost her girl in December of ’04.

For four years, she didn’t have the heart to have another dog.

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