a Christmas cat
George Orwell: Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood. a christmas cat this year end was definitely different. down for four days and nights with low fevers as I seldom got sick. the weather was pretty cold during the time. it felt colder with fever. then on the christmas eve, early morning, a cat landed on the roof covered with snow and meowed outside at the sill of a window of the second floor. ...