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I Made a New Friend Today
And I don’t even know her name!
She never told me her name. Now that I think about it I never told her my name either.
I was sitting on the front porch of my apartment building when, for some inexplicable reason, I turned my head and saw her walking around to the front of the hedge growing in front of the building.
She abruptly stopped and stared at me. I stared at her. After a long moment of silence she began walking towards me, her eyes not leaving mine. She jumped up to the porch and approached me with no hesitation whatsoever. She then rubbed her face against my arm. It was instant attraction…
She then jumped up into my lap. Wow, how friendly, I thought. She kept rubbing up against me. She rubbed her face against my beard. I rubbed my face against her face. I rubbed her face and her ears and her chest and her belly. We talked for a long time. She did most of the talking…
Maybe I should start at the beginning…
I was having a yard sale. The details aren’t important but I was trying to get rid of stuff and I was also trying to raise some much-needed cashola. I had hauled several tons of stuff down the stairs to the front of the building. I was exhausted from the get-go.
