fivecats | 28 in 28: Day 3 -- Unrequited love.

Mikey
2009 Outside Raleighwood
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3. Unrequited love.

This is a strange one, one I wouldn't have thought to put on a list of writing topics. I think it's because Unrequited Love is something I associate with being a schoolboy, my imagination going overtime about some unobtainable girl who either didn't know I existed or, worse, didn't care I existed.

After I was somewhere around 17 and fell into a crowd in NW DC, I was spending my weekends up there and I learned how to actually talk to girls. That simple idea resolved a lot of the Unrequitedness in my life. Instead of being oh-so-miserable-and-alone, I had friends, and there were girls who actually liked me for me.

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Tonight on the way home I rounded the curve by our library and saw a cat lying still in the road. I turned the car around, parked a the nearest intersection and walked over to it. It hadn't been dead long, and it probably didn't even know it had been hit. I picked it up and moved it onto the grass by the sidewalk, in case someone came looking for their missing pet. I asked Tony, Tigg and Hader to welcome him into The Crab Shack.

After just losing Tony, the sight of a loved, cared for cat stupidly hit and killed was -- and still is -- hard to deal with.

Give all of your furry friends an extra hug. Our time together is so brief.

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