When I decided to move to Tahiti I promised myself not to adopt pets. At home we’ve had many and after they passed away the atmosphere was always dreadful.
But I met Blackie. A tiny three-colored ordinary tahitian female-cat. Her mother died some days after her birth, she was hungry and motherless. I adopted her.
And Blackie had an accident. It was inevitable !
After her death I was inconsolable, crying day and night. I had in mind her bright blue eyes, funny pointing tail and never ending meowing. Yes, I think you understand, Blackie was kind of first love pet of my own.
She died as every single living creature is vowed to do. Leaving me in an absolute despair. Family, friends, chocolate bars, nothing could replace her lost.
On the second day of her death and coming from nowhere, a little gray puffy kitten jumped up my bed. In the beginning, completely absorbed by my pain, I didn’t even noticed his presence. Determined to enter in contact with me, he gently patted my cheek with his tiny paws.
Surprised I opened my eyes and met his sweet eyes starring at me. Not understanding and too grieved to pay attention to this apparition, I kept on weeping. Determined but delicate he tapped my cheek, again.
At that moment I took a deep breath and told him : “What do you want ? Where do you come from ?”. Instinctively he snuggled up to me and started to purr. I was paralyzed not knowing what to do with this unknown strange kitten coming from nowhere. But his little green eyes and his purr were so soothing that instinctively I started to carress him, too.
We were there, snuggled up to each other, without a word in this sharing silence. Exhausted by my grief I fell asleep.
I think I dreamt of Blackie, I’m not sure. Sure is that when I woke up little kitten was there happy to see me smile again. “You’re so sweet, Angel kitten”, I told him. And gave him some cat food.
Life is extraordinary !
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