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- From: hcrain@convex.csd.uwm.edu (Helen C Crain)
- Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
- Subject: Re: a friend gone
- Date: 16 Nov 1992 14:17:09 GMT
- Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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- From article <1e1u0tINN3lq@natinst.com>, by Thad_Engeling@quickmail.natinst.com (Thad Engeling):
- > My mother called me this afternoon at work.
- > This morning around 10AM our calico cat Princess was put to sleep.
- >............. She touched my life as much as any person.
- > I loved her, and I will miss her.
- >
- > -Thad
- >
- You -will- miss her. I lost my old girl, Cassandra, in
- 1988, and I still dream about her. No pet and damned few
- people have made me feel so special as that kitty did. Why
- do we let ourselves get so attached to such shortlived
- critters?
- --
- Helen C. Crain hcrain@convex.csd.uwm.edu
- UWMilwaukee Nursing Wisconsin, USA
- "There is more of good nature than good sense at the
- bottom of most marriages" HD Thoreau
-