<P> Over the next year or so, Parker and Hachi become even closer . Parker tries, but Hachi refuses to do dog - like activities such as chasing and fetching . One morning, Parker leaves for work and Hachi follows him to the train station and refuses to leave until Parker walks him home . Later that afternoon, Hachi walks to the station to wait patiently for Parker to return . Parker is surprised to find Hachi waiting for him, and it becomes a daily routine . </P> <P> One day, Hachi waits patiently as the train arrives, but there is no sign of Parker . He waits, lying in the snow for hours until Parker's son - in - law Michael comes to get him . Although everyone tries to tell Hachi that Parker has died (of a cerebral hemorrhage during a lecture in class), Hachi doesn't understand . Hachi continues to return to the station and wait every day . </P> <P> As time passes, Cate sells the house and Hachi is sent to live with Parker and Cate's daughter Andy, her husband Michael, and their baby Ronnie . However, Hachi escapes and finds his way back to the station, where he sits at his usual spot . Andy arrives and takes him home, but after seeing how depressed the dog is she lets him out to return to the station . Hachi waits every day at the train station and sleeps in the rail yard at night . He is fed daily by the train station workers who knew the professor . After seeing a newspaper article about Hachi, Ken visits Hachi . </P> <P> Cate comes back to visit Parker's grave on the tenth anniversary of his death and meets Ken . She is stunned to see a now elderly Hachi still waiting at the station . Overcome with grief, Cate sits and waits for the next train with him . At home, Cate tells the now ten - year - old Ronnie about Hachi . Meanwhile, Hachi continues waiting until his body can wait no longer, and is last seen lying in the snow, alone and still, although he is comforted by a final vision of Parker finally appearing and picking him up to go, presumably to the afterlife . </P>

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