My friend Matty believed he could fly. "I have the cape and everything," he told me one afternoon. We were playing knights and dragons in his backyard when he pointed to the roof. "You want to try?"I looked up. The Russians had sent a dog into space, her name was Laika. I'd seen it on the Evening News. We'd had a dog once, named Socks. Earlier that year, we'd had to put him down. My father told me to be a "brave little soldier." "Will he be scared?" I had asked my mom."He won't feel a thing," she assured me. But when we left him at the vet's that day, he was shaking all over. I wondered if Lai