about her.

four.

a fourth addition joined the family

a black and white cat

that the little girl named zoe,

after the character from sesame street,

for her parents wouldn't let her name the feline 'elmo'.

the family loved that cat more than any of them knew.

zoe would lay at her dad's feet

and allow her mother to stroke her

and put up with the little girl's childish antics,

only staring back at her with large green eyes in amusement.

when that cat died,

part of her childhood went with her

and so another piece of her father's presence in the house

was

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