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Michael and Scarlett married on May 20, 1965. On a rainy day in June he and Scarlett returned from their Banff honeymoon. That morning they moved into their new home. Their meager furnishings had been delivered. As they had just arrived, their Sprite’s engine was not yet cold.
The orange tabby kitten had used up his nine lives cohabiting with a feral brood on the streets and lived on borrowed days when Michael Kane first found him, huddled wet, dripping, and cold beneath their engine mount.
They didn’t know the pedigree, age, nor name of the kitten that emerged squealing and bouncing stiff-legged from under the relative warmth of the car but like the infamous bad penny he hung around the young mechanical expert until Michael convinced his wife to adopt the handsome little cat.
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