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It's taken me a while to do this because Obe's decline was so fast. I expected Moki to go long before she did, but I thought to have many more years with Niobe ( Read more... )

I'm writing a paper about the 1996 challenge to the book A Wrinkle in Time. In NC, a parent was told by his child that she did not enjoy this book, which was assigned for an advanced reading class. He challenged it and was told his child could read something else. He chose to challenge the book's presence in the public school libraries in that ( Read more... )

Moki belonged to another family. The patriarch of said family worked with my dad in the Navy when we lived in Groton. When they went away, they left Moki with us. She was always happier with us, because we didn't yell at her for things that weren't her fault, nor did any of us put cigarettes out on her nose. We loved her and even when she stole my ( Read more... )