All Creatures

next to my heart

My dear friend Cathy loved animals, and I loved Cathy. So when I gave the eulogy at her funeral on that gray December day, that’s pretty much what I said.

Cathy loved just about every living thing that I kept on my small Mississippi farm, even my sometimes ornery donkey, Honkey. Cathy would talk to the pigs, cows and cats as if they were her

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