Cat

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The woman trapped a feral cat in her home. She felt alone, birds were pretty, but broke their necks on the window, or the pigeon hawk snapped them out of the air.
But she was lonely and the cat had lived on the golf course. Now she wouldn't let her out. Weak little kitty, or suffocated, we're not saying. Daughter called, needed help, woman told her the cat needed her more than her child. Told the girl to live without, and continued to demand "the cat was not feral!"
This woman knew cat would never say a word, but the girl told the truth. The woman felt alone with the feral cat in her home. She sat by her pool, quiet it felt, rude. She hated her daughter, all that potential. The cat was feral.

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