Beauty & the Beasts
“Jean and the four volunteers met once a month at the shelter; ordered a pizza and discussed successes, failures and the direction they were going.Today’s meeting was held in Joan’s kitchen; everyone munched on veggie pizza, talked in quick bursts between bites and laughed frequently.Madeline finished a slice while listening to another volunteer talk about a conflict with the manager of a store where they’d been holding adoption days. They agreed on a possible solution. In the lull afterward she... said, “Joan, I don’t know that I even told you about a promising conversation I had this week.”Heads turned her way. “A woman who’d called to see if we could take an older cat—Sophy, the beautiful white short-hair who came yesterday— turns out to head a hospice organization. They provide nursing care and meals to terminally ill patients who are still in their homes. Sophy belonged to a young man with AIDS who recently died and had no one willing to take the cat. This woman—Maria Garcia—says that pretty regularly they’re left having to place pets.MoreLess
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