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Jilly_in_VA

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35. My last foster was a black cat named Midnight

Sun Sep 28, 2025, 08:46 AM

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I had nothing to do with that {orvious forsters were Bridget and Sumu (Finnish for fog, bercause she was gray and I was thinking of the Sandburg poem). My husband has ordered me out of the foster business, so I just have to name shelter strays when I get the chance.

Previous cats I have been owned by: Don Bosco (who appeared at my door one day and was named for the patron saint of street kids), Mittney (a tucie girl, how my daughter said m"mittens" when she was little), Bitty, Jack, McFurzie (a lonhaired white boy), BT, Abigail, Gabriel. Dos (most of whom came with their names): Rainy, Porsche, Annie, Tansy, Mikey.

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