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In 1997, four days after I trapped a pregnant feral cat I'd been feeding for a while, she gave birth to four bouncing babies in my den, two boys and two girls.

Photo: Julia P.

I already had two boys and wasn't planning on keeping any of the kittens, but they were so beautiful—pure white with blue eyes! I wanted one of the two girls, so of course they were the first to be adopted.

I planned to keep just one of the boys, but the other was so antisocial that he ran from me for about four months! He was definitely unadoptable to a stranger.

Then one day, he casually circled me as I knelt on the floor. I ran my hand down his back and tail, and just like that, he became a lovebug.

Fully grown, he was too big to fit on my lap, so he'd lie halfway on it.

We went through a lot with his health over the years, including asthma, hypertension, and renal failure. Through it all, he was such a little trouper about taking his medications.

In the end, it was cancer that took my Indigo from me in June of that year, just 10 days after his 17th birthday.

I later bought a car charm from this site and hung it from the chain that used to hold his IV bag. A day later, the angel wing had somehow looped itself through the heart frame! A message of reassurance from heaven, no doubt.

His brother has never had any health problems, and thus far, he's still going strong. I treasure every day he spends with my little furmily, which now includes another feral rescue girl and her playmate, a lynx point.

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Story submitted by Julia P. from Houston, TX.

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