Just reading these words made me cry...

From The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

Through the eyes of Enzo the dog...

(After years of suffering on account of something very wrong being pinned on him, Denny is acquitted, and the charges which had been unfairly levied against him were dropped.)

Denny couldn't breathe, he was so overwhelmed when he heard the verdict.

Enzo says-------he (Denny) may have been able to hold it off, but when his friend Mike 'wrapped him in a hug,' 'Denny unleashed the years of tears that had been dammed behind mud and determination and the ability to always find another finger to stick in the leaking dike. He cried so hard.'