What a beautiful tribute, and like everyone else, I'm having trouble typing through my tears. I'm so sorry she's gone
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Thank you all so much for sharing Ophelia's life with me on the site, with this short(ish) tribute to her life (well, it is short for 12 years!), and sharing a bit of our grief with us. :touch:
Pam, you asked about how Trent is doing... He has been a bright spot to me. When I told him about Ophelia I was crying, of course. He looked up at her apartment then put his head down. But when he lifted his head up again he had his little tongue sticking out. I cannot help but laugh when he does that - it is the cutest thing! ...And he knows I love it. The message from him was very clear. He understood but he didn't want me to cry anymore. :touch: Is it any wonder we love these cats this much that it also hurts this much when they move on without us. On the other hand...he has also been throwing up a lot since she passed, so we need to deal with that.
The little girls had a very interesting reaction as well. I told them when all three of them were in the bedroom. All three of them lowered their heads, like people do when praying or having a moment of silence. Now that it's been a couple days, the calicos are pretty much back to normal but Mojo does appear to be mourning. I will say the dynamic of the household has really changed.
And Ophelia has made an appearance too. Earl lost a set of earphones during our trip to Illinois the 1st week of October. He tore apart every bag we brought with us, looked in the car, everywhere. Nothing. Last night when I went in to the bedroom to lay down there they were on the middle of the bed, all wrapped up like he had put them there. I didn't think much of it until he came in and said, "You found them???" So neither of us had actually "found" these earbuds that he had lost sometime around the 13th of October, but there they were! I told him, "Looks like Ophelia found them for you. Be sure to say thank you." :bicolor: