DEAR SALLY LOUISE,
YOU CAME TO US AS THE SWEETEST LITTLE KITTY. WE WERE NOT GOING TO KEEP YOU. WE SAID 2 WAS ENOUGH. WE EVEN GAVE YOU AWAY TWICE, AND BACK YOU CAME. THEN DAD SAID, YOU WERE TO BE OURS FROM NOW ON. YOU FLEW AROUND THE HOUSE, AND TERRORIZED THE OTHER 2, AND YOU GREW INTO A BEAUTIFUL, FLUFFY, CAT WHO STOLE OUR HEARTS.
YOU WERE THE SWEETEST, THE KINDEST, AND THE MOST LOVING CHILD WE HAD. YOU NEVER GOT MAD. YOU NEVER CAUSED ANY TROUBLE WITH THE OTHER KIDS. ALL YOU WANTED WAS TO BE LOVED. YOU DID NOT REALLY EXPECT MUCH, EXCEPT YOUR FOOD AND ICE CUBES, AND OH, SALLY, HOW YOU LOVED YOUR FOOD, AND THE COLD WATER. YOU LOVED ICE CREAM AND YOU ALWAYS SHARED MINE WITH ME. I CAN’T EVEN EAT IT NOW, BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT HERE TO SHARE IT.
YOU WANTED YOUR SPOT ON THE BED, NEXT TO DAD, AND YOU WOULD HOLD YOUR GROUND UNTIL THE OTHER KIDS MOVED. YOU WOULD COWER FROM THEM ,THE REST OF THE TIME, BUT NOT WHEN IT CAME TO YOUR SPOT ON THE BED, OR THE COUCH. I HAVE NEVER KNOWN, OR EVER WILL A CHILD WHO WAS SO SWEET NATURED AND LOVING. EVEN WHEN YOU WERE SICK, YOU DID NOT EVEN SHOW IT UNTIL YOU WERE VERY SICK, VERY SICK, AND IT WAS TOO LATE TO HELP YOU. YOU WILL ALWAYS BE THE SWEETEST GIRL,
OUR LITTLE GIRL.
I AM SORRY YOU PASSED FIRST. YOU ARE THE BABY. I HOPE YOU WERE NOT SCARED. I STAYED WITH YOU. I HELD YOU AND I TRIED TO MAKE IT OK AS YOU CROSSED OVER. PLEASE WATCH OUT FOR ALL OF US. WE WILL BE WITH YOU SOMEDAY. AND WE WILL BE A FAMILY AGAIN. I WILL NEVER FORGET FEEDING YOU FROM A SPOON, AND JUST PRAYING THAT YOU WOULD EAT SOMETHING EACH DAY. YOU LOOKED AT ME, AND I KNOW YOU KNEW I WAS TRYING, BUT YOU WERE SO SICK.
SALLY, I LOVE YOU. I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU. WE WILL BE WITH YOU SOMEDAY. YOU PLAY UNTIL THEN. LOVE YOUR MOM, DAD, ROSIE, EDDIE, CASPER, AND CUDDLES.