Ghost Cat 
Hardcover – June 11, 2019
by Kevan Atteberry
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cat, that showed up at our house years and years ago. It just appeared on our
porch for several days in a row and eventually my wife, Teri, stated feeding
it. I warned her if she fed it it would stick around. And she did, and it did.
It came to us as an outdoor cat but eventually became an indoor/outdoor cat. If
it had other places to be he was free to go there. He didn¡¯t, preferring to
live with us. And he did for about a dozen years. One day I hadn¡¯t seen him
around and went looking for him. I found him lying dead in the side yard.
When the cat died, my
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I had to tell her several times over the next few days that the cat had died.
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forgot that we even had had a cat.
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