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"Whoop de do! I clean your poop!"

"Well, now you just sound like a child."

"I AM A CHILD!" I screamed.

We looked at each other. She looked down at her beautiful grey paws and I sobbed.

Misty crawled tentatively onto my lap and I lifted her into my arms. Together we curled up in the pile of clothes.

As my hand petted her back and her soft purrs petted my mood, I made a decision.

This problem was too big for me, a child.

But I also knew, because Misty had bravely (drunkenly) risked the rules and talked to me, that it was too big for everyone.

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