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I feel as if this is something I should remember.

The other day, after a fight with Allison, she brought home a very small kitten. You see, we work at an animal shelter. The kitten had been abandoned by it’s mother. Seeing as the kitten and queen shared a small cage, the abandonment was apparent.

When your around animals long enough, you learn that they always know exactly what is going on. I learned this the hard way.

When Allison brought the kitten home she told me it’s chance of survival were nearly non-existent. But we tried. We bottle fed it throughout the day, kept it warm, we did the best we could.

At 10:24PM the kitten peacefully fell asleep and died.

It’s weird, I see an alarming number of animals euthanized every day. (”No KIll” shelters do not exist.) But this one little kitten got to me.

The queen knew it’s kitten would die.

I named the kitten Magnolia, after the tree I buried it under.

Maybe there is something to learn from this. Maybe I’ll figure it out one day.

But for now, this just feels like something I shouldn’t forget.