Hazel lost her favorite lovey shortly before Thanksgiving, a white kitty her Ms Shirley and Mr Jeff brought her when they came to visit us. Hazel and the kitty were inseparable, so we were all sad to find her missing. We celebrated Thanksgiving with them and told them our sad news, so we were all pretty excited to see a new kitty (or “White Meow”, as Hazel has named her) in the mail the next week. Shirley and Jeff were so gracious to send her a second kitty. It was soon discovered, however, that the original White Meow was sleeping peacefully in her bed (aka, shoebox), which Hazel had stashed in her closet. Hazel was overjoyed to have TWO white meows, and we were a little embarrassed to have put our friends to the trouble of getting another kitty. Hazel felt no such regret or embarrassment.
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