Mom and my sweetest cat died this year. Mom in April and my little princess yesterday.

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25. Wow. That's tough losing you Dad and Uncle so close together.

And it's comforting to believe they're having a good time together now! I truly hope they are. I envisioned my Mom reuniting with her Mom and Dad, her brother and sister, and friends and pets from long ago. They'd be having a veritable family reunion! She mentioned in the hours before her death that she was talking to her mother (dead many years by that time). We surmised that maybe her Mom was sent to get her - to bring her back home. Comforting thoughts for us. But - maybe just her dementia too.

We have to do what we can to comfort ourselves I guess. And I do hope they are - or the essence of all of them - are living joyously somewhere together.

I've been wishing my Princess lots of toy mousies to play with, lots of good noms, lots of carpet and rugs to scratch (she had scratchers but insisted on rugs and carpet instead), hoping my Mom who loved cats would be there to greet and love her, lots of other friendly kitties to play with - whatever would be 'heaven' for her I hope that's where she is. I can't decide if it's the suffering or their final death which is worse. In a way in both instances - Mom and Bitsy the Princess - it was at least partially a relief but also a total heartbreak - the suffering and missing them so very much now that they're gone. I talked to my Mom almost every day. And I talked to my princess every day too! =^..^=