{"id":5953,"date":"2010-05-04T23:46:48","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T04:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/requiem.spiderforest.com\/?p=5953"},"modified":"2010-05-04T23:46:48","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T04:46:48","slug":"its-been-a-long-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/requiem.spiderforest.com\/?p=5953","title":{"rendered":"It’s been a long ride…."},"content":{"rendered":"

After fighting it out with cancer and arthritis, we finally had to put our 14 1\/2 year old feline to sleep yesterday. Some of you out there knew the Mighty Missy, and since I’m not a drinking man (but some of you are) if you’d be willing to raise a glass and make a toast to a feline that survived being thrown out of a car at the age of 4 1\/2 weeks old, was capable of telling time, knew how to operate a compact disc player, and was the unofficial editorial department for the comic, I would be very grateful.<\/p>\n

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“if love would die along with death,
\nthis life wouldn’t be so hard”
\n—-Andrew Vachss<\/p>\n

Go easy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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