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The world without Sophia.

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 A world without Sophia in it.  My heart is heavy with grief.  I've just relived 2 decades in 2 weeks. Doesn't seem possible.  Sophia Snowflake Puffin Paws, her Highness, was our beloved kitty cat since June of 2002.  Born March 16, we adopted her at 3 months old.   But she time traveled into the future.  Where I aged 20 years between 2002 and 2022, Sophia aged 97.  She began almost like a toddler who grew older than me, and finally became my great grandmother.  Seen Interstellar?  Feels something like that.  But here's the reality in the chart below: Sophie was still in good health for her age when I made a video about her in early 2021 ---->   Ode to Sophia .  She was able to memorize all her lines and act on cue. 😺  But the last year and a half has been the hardest on our family, seeing her health deteriorate so rapidly, seeing her listless, seeing her in discomfort, and not really knowing how bad it was, since animals are very good at hiding their pain.   Our belove