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Hi, everyone. I really hate to ask for help but my cat Zoe stopped eating and drinking a couple of days ago and started breathing very heavily. Turns out she has been diagnosed with pleural effusion. She needs emergency care and extensive testing to find out the cause (which could be CHF, cancer or FIP). Unfortunately, the cost of initial care amounts to R$3,500 (around US$700) and I've run out of funds caring for her sister with IBD in the past few months, so I could really use some help right now. Any little bit goes a long way. Please share and help us if you can.

Pay*Pal: [email protected]

(Unfortunately, I can't use other crowdfunding options since I'm based in Brazil)

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It Was Like This: You Were Happy

by Jane Hirshfield

It was like this: you were happy, then you were sad, then happy again, then not.

It went on. You were innocent or you were guilty. Actions were taken, or not.

At times you spoke, at other times you were silent. Mostly, it seems you were silent — what could you say?

Now it is almost over.

Like a lover, your life bends down and kisses your life.

It does this not in forgiveness — between you, there is nothing to forgive — but with the simple nod of a baker at the moment he sees the bread is finished with transformation.

Eating, too, is a thing now only for others.

It doesn’t matter what they will make of you or your days: they will be wrong, they will miss the wrong woman, miss the wrong man, all the stories they tell will be tales of their own invention.

Your story was this: you were happy, then you were sad, you slept, you awakened. Sometimes you ate roasted chestnuts, sometimes persimmons.

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