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welcome to the best of first-person

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the cats from the woods my dad got mad

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and kicked me out one night

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that started getting cold so i slept

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against a barn

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i woke up to something touching my leg

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it was a cat

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well it slept against me then five more

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came from the bushes in the woods and

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crawled up and slept on me

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keeping me warm one of the cats went

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back into the bushes and started

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bringing her kittens out

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and placing them on my lap like four of

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them so i was covered by cats and

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kittens

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next day i got up and started leaving

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the girl cat carried her kitten with her

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and when i got home she had followed me

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and placed it on my doorstep

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i gave her milk and went in the cat

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started scratching and making noises

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until i came out

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when i did she picked up the cat and

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brought her to me and walked away

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i kept the kitten and the mama cat would

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sit on my outside windowsill and look in

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the home watching us

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then when i'd come out she'd leave the

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kitten got big enough to go out

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and i'd let her but she never left the

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front yard

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the mama would come and lick her and

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then go back to the woods

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i don't know what it was but the kitten

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didn't meow or anything

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it would make a sound that sounded like

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my name wait

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then it would use its paw to tap me if

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it wanted anything

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the cat lived two years and then walked

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out to the woods where it walked off

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with the cat that looked like its mama

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i hadn't seen it in two years and it

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left forever

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the next morning there was a scratch on

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the door and a kitten was there

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it looked close to my old cat and in the

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bushes was the old mama cat looking i

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picked it up and its mama walked off

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two years later i see the old cat or one

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really close to it on the windowsill

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but it would leave when i come out as

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this weird or do cats bring more to you

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like storks

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the kitten didn't meow but made the wade

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sound also and it would tap me also

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she slept in same spot even though i got

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her a new bed in another room

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she'd crawl dragging my old cat's

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blanket to my dresser

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and place it on it and sleep weird or

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another thing that's important i forgot

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is that it would get my attention and

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look me in the eyes

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and hold it there like it wanted me to

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know something so bad but couldn't tell

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me

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it hit my keys when i used to drink like

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it didn't want me to drive

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it hid my cigarettes because i guess it

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did not want me smoke

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she placed them in litter box that she

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hated to use

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she would go on the little flower bed by

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the front door same as the other they

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were like twins almost reincarnated

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that's best way to say it it was like

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the same cat

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and it wanted me to know it never left

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she would put a picture i had of the old

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cat and me on the couch

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and i'd put it on the counter and she'd

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move it back until i put it on dresser

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where she slept

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and she was so so happy i never saw

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anything like it

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people say cats are dumb but they're not

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they're thinking and have a soul

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or a memory of a past i don't know i'm

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lost over it

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we're connected by something like fate

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strange cat tales one i've had strange

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cat experience i like to tell people

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because it's so

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unusual one day while walking home late

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at night the same road i walked down

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every night two cats walked up to me and

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started meowing at my feet wanting

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attention

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so i stroked them because it's sometimes

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irresistible

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they were being very engaging with me

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rubbing up against my legs and meowing

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like cats do

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after a short while of playing with them

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i looked up and saw a large amount of

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cats

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must have been about 50 no exaggeration

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everywhere i looked there was a cat some

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sitting together on the short walls

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outside the houses

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some more engaging at my feet some state

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i was just completely surrounded by cats

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and as i looked down the road there were

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more cats walking up the road towards me

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none of these cats look like wild tabby

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cats ones i could see had collars so

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they were domestic

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which makes it strange because these

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cats are territorial and should be

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fighting with each other but not one cat

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fight took place they were all getting

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i tried taking photos as it was an

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amazing sight to see

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but they all came out blurry but that

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could be blamed on the poor nightlight

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strange cat tales too my wife and i saw

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the same neighborhood cat walk by 30

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minutes apart

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we were talking on the porch nothing

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intense just couple stuff

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the first time sox walked by we both

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noticed his collar was broken

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hanging loose like a red tie i even

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commented that he was home from work

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and it must have been a bad day we kept

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talking

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neither of us moving and when he came

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back from the same direction we both

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commented on how weird it was

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he even came along the same path which

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differs slightly from the norm

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but this isn't the only example of

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repetition in common policy it is a

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glitch in the matrix

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very interesting that modern physics has

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a growing consensus that this reality

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may in fact be

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ghost cat when i was in high school we

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had a ghost cat

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we all used to see it in flashes out of

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the corners of our eye

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and of course my real very much alive

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cat

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nike used to chase things and hiss at

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the wall

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one night i was lying in bed and i felt

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my cat jump up on the bed and curl up in

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his favorite spot that he always sleeps

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in between my apart ankles on the edge

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of the bed

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naturally i thought nothing of it is it

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that was until about a half an hour

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later that something else jumped up on

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my bed

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i instantly craned my neck backwards to

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see nike who was just staring at the

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indent in the blankets

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since clearly he couldn't go to lay down

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in his favorite spot

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casper the cat i believe i'm writing to

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you about a ghost

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though i'm not sure if the animal

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kingdom has an afterlife

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my big brother gill is a long-haul

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driver and regularly makes trips across

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the country

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he'd be on the road for a couple weeks

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then come home to virginia and stop by

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to see our mother who lives with me and

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my husband

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i don't know how he does it but he's

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always been a loner

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last summer gil said that he pulled into

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a truck stop in indiana to get some food

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and rest

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he's got a nice modern sleeper berth on

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board he went to get something to eat

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came back and there was a male black and

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white cat in the cabin

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he wondered how it got in there he was

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about to get rid of it but then thought

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it may be lost because

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it had a new looking collar and was well

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taken care of so he went back inside and

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asked around

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nobody was aware of a missing cat so he

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rode up a lost cat flyer and posted it

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he went back to the truck and the cat

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was asleep on the passenger seat

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gill had himself a hitchhiker from the

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beginning the calf seemed a bit strange

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for one thing it would disappear and not

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show up for many hours

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gil would look all over the cabin and

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birth but there was no cat

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he assumed he found a hiding place

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something else

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the cat didn't need anything bill gave

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it he never saw it rink water either

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when they'd stop somewhere the cat would

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just disappear again

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phil just figured it found a way out

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somehow one morning in arizona

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gil woken didn't see the cat anywhere he

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waited around

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a bit but he was on a schedule to make a

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delivery in texas

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so he had to get on the road he felt bad

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that he was leaving without the cat

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but that's the way it had to be he

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pulled into the delivery location in

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texas that evening

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he got out of the truck to talk to the

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guys at the dock when he saw the cat

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walking around the truck

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after that he called the cat casper he

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said the casper acted like a ghost

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he was getting ready to leave and head

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east and casper was asleep on the

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passenger seat

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a few days later phil came home he

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stopped by the house to see our mother

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and to get some dinner

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we all sat at the table guild told us

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about casper

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he asked me if i could watch casper for

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a few days before he headed back out on

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the road i said fine

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so gil went to the back door and there

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sack casper

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it was like he knew that he was staying

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there for the three days casper stayed

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with us

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he never came into the house i put food

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and water out for him but he left it

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untouched

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i figured he was catching myself birds

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i'd see him stretching out on the patio

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once in a while but he'd never come in

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the door

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gill called me and said that he was

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coming over to pick up casper and head

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out onto the highway

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well i couldn't find the cat we all

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thought that casper had found greener

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passers and moved on

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gil left without his companion later

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that week gill called me from california

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he said that he guessed the casper

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hadn't showed up at home he started to

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laugh

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because casper was with him in fact he

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hadn't seen casper until that day

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he found him asleep on the passenger

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seat after grabbing a bite aid

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a few hours later gill called to say the

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casper was missing again

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but he figured he'd show up sometime

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later well that never happened

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none of us have seen casper since this

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past spring

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gill was back at the indiana truck stop

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where he had found casper the previous

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summer

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the flyer he had posted was gone from

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the bulletin board

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he sat down to order some food later

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striking up a conversation with the

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waivers

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he told her about casper and that he had

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found him at that truck stop

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she gave gil an odd look then she

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started to describe casper to him

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including the caller

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she said that the cat used to belong to

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the owner of the truck stop the cat's

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name was paco

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one day paco got into a fight with an

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unknown animal and was killed

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she also said the paco was buried in the

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small grove of trees beside the truck

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stop

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after eating gil walked over to the

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grove of trees

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there was a small memorial for paco

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there are all kinds of cat toys and

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other things left on the grave

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phil called me that night and told me

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the story it just seems to me that paco

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was a companion to a lot of truck

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drivers

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