Picture 6/11: Dead Cats

June 11

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Tonight at bedtime, our first-grader wanted me to read her new kitty book, which she picked up for free at the Argenta rummage sales a couple weekends back.

A sample page:

The book was printed in 1979.

35 years ago.

The same year my brother was born, for goodness sake.

As I was reading it to her, I could not get a recurring thought out of my mind.

That cat's dead.

And that cat's dead.

And that kitty too.

No, I did not vocallize and sadden the child.

Out for now.....

MH