Imogene Mewler: My Early Birthday Present from God.
I call Imogene, 'my early birthday present from God.' Ever since I was 4 years old, I desperately wanted a cat. Every little girl needs a cat, right? I extensively researched the different breeds in our encyclopedias and read the Little Golden books we had about cats cover to cover until I could almost recite them from memory. For a while, I was very much obsessed. But I never did get a cat of my own until this year. My dad told me over and over, "We can't pay for a cat, we'd have to vaccinate the thing, no telling where we could find a good cat in West Africa, we'd have to feed it, it'd get sick, what would we do with it while we are on furlough, et cetera and so on," "Yes, Daddy, but they're soooo cute!" ...I can't count the number of times we had that conversation, but I dropped it after a while because Dad was right. Last month, Tristan and I went to a retreat designed for MKs . I had an incredible time. Poor...