Saffy

Yesterday I learned my sister's cat, Saffy, had passed away. This is a picture of me reading War and Peace to Saffy in 2009.

Here she is in 2012:

And in February 2020:

That's a month before I left the U.S.

Saffy was named after a character on Absolutely Fabulous and was a feisty kitten. Here she is when she was a new kitten, thirteen years ago:

Here she is a little more subdued, a year later:

She always had that fire in her eyes, though. Saffy was an intense, lovely little beast. I'll miss her.

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A giddy zombie swipes intruders' rings.
A special prize was lost beneath the ham.
Again, the gang of pretty slayers sings.
A flood of hearts repressed behind a dam.
A hail of rocks deters the av'rage rake.
Committed dogs remain athwart the bird.
Approaching rats're only partly baked.
A sterile place awaits the signal word.
The fog resembles hands above the bay.
A crowded boat delivers skin to fish.
Another hood disrupts the sailor's way.
A crumpled five convinced a dreamy dish.
A friendly shadow watched for sev'ral years.
But now the cat departs as morning nears.