The Cat That Healed A Little Girl

The little girl emerging from the car was tall for her seven years, bedraggled and rail thin. Straight, sandy brown hair hung down over her shoulders, framing a pale but pretty face with big green eyes. Her jeans were tight at the waist and three inches short of her bony ankles, where tattered canvas sneakers, one with flopping sole, showed the best she had to wear was last summer’s clothes. Her mother had not been able to care for her, her father refused, and so she remained in the foster care system. This would be her sixth foster home in less than a year...