A Tribute to Girlfriend
Girlfriend adopted us more than seven years
ago and slowly won his way into our hearts as well as into our
house, our cat allergies notwithstanding. We named him while
he was still semi-wild, and by the time we got to know him up-close,
the name had stuck. When he got his leg broken last December
we learned from the vet that he had feline AIDS and would be
vulnerable to infections. At that point he became a full-time
indoor cat, but that was not protection enough for him. He died
the night of March 17 after several days of becoming progressively
weaker and is buried in the back yard, his grave marked with
his favorite toys.
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