The first entry this
year starts off with a little kitten named Asher. I had been living alone in my
apartment for several months and was feeling a little lonesome, so my boyfriend
took me to this home and garden center nearby. He had seen these cute little
kittens and wanted me to choose one. (He knew that the best way to this girl’s
heart was with a kitten.
I looked into the cage and
my heart melted at the sight of this little orange kitten, just as he started
trying to reach me through the prison bars. He was so cute, with those sweet
baby blue eyes and those delicate paws. It was love at first sight for both of
us.
A couple of months
later, while I was working for the L.A.Times, I met another girl who was
looking for an apartment. I had just recently joined the Church of Jesus Christ
of LDS and she had heard about both my baptism and my need for a new roommate;
because she was also a member of the same Church and we both worked together,
it seemed a “match made in Heaven.”
Marion also had a pet:
a small green parrot named Pippin, after Peregrin Took, in "The Lord of the
Rings". Pippin liked to climb all over the curtains, and because he had sharp
claws and a sharper beak, he more or less destroyed said curtains. When our
landlady came to get our rent she saw the tears up and down the curtains and
declared that Asher had to go.
Never mind that Asher
had been declawed before he ever moved in with me; he was a kitten, kittens
climbed up curtains and tore them, so kittens must go. And Pippin just happened
to be hanging on to the curtain as she made this pronouncement.
Fortunately, I had
become friends with a girl who worked in the supermarket behind my apartment
building and she was already in love with Asher. She gladly took him into her
heart and home, and I was once again desolate. I moved into another apartment
soon after, but I have never forgot my dear sweet little Asher.
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