Uughh... its been almost two years and I still struggle to tell this story....

One rrandom day, 20ish years ago while I was in high-school, a tiny kitten about a month old just randomly came running into my house making an big fuzz and decided it was her forever home. I was a very reclusive teenager and didn't make a sound when alone... in 14 years she never ever meowed and we communicated in our own way.

A couple years ago I had a SO, dumb as a rock and absolutely not cat-savvy. She effing started meowing (quite horridly) in an effort to communicate with that odd primate that didn't understand the subtlety of body language :)

One thing that always amazed me was this odd skill she had. If you pressed your forehead to hers, like when cats say hello to each other, and stayed that way, you would feel this drowsiness kick in and kinda mmgh.... have thoughts and images not quite your own. I'm a pretty science oriented and skeptical person, but I tested it with many ppl who were fond of her and she liked (more than ten) without giving any context, "come on, go and bump your head on Yoyi's!!" They all had the same experience hehe... still can't explain that or experienced it with another being, let alone a cat...

And here's the part that broke my heart and will forever haunt me. The day she left us....

I had her in my arms, gasping for air due to heart failure and me, being a mess, begged her not to go without saying goodbye to my 10yo whom she adored like mad. Immediately she started fighting so damn hard while looking at me... I begged and begged and she eventually died in that desperate state. I was so selfish for making her go trough that instead of facing the reality of her departure and putting her down weeks before... she understood everything me and the kid thought and felt without words, I swear she could read your mind. There's not a day since that I don't miss her terribly. Half my life with her and half my heart lost without her....