Cleo: How a Small Black Cat Helped Heal a Family

[BrklynLiberal]

When Helen Brown's family was struck by tragedy, they struggled to cope. But help came in a most unexpected form - an intuitive cat called Cleo who gradually eased their grief...
Most days are so similar they’re forgotten almost before the sun sets on them. Lulled
into routines involving the same breakfast cereals, school runs and familiar faces, we’re anaesthetised into believing our lives will go on unchanged for ever.

The 21st of January 1983 started out that way. My husband Steve was taking our boys – Sam, nine, and Rob, six – into town. On the way, he dropped me at my friend Jessie’s. As I climbed out of the car, Sam slid into the front passenger seat and his blue eyes beamed into mine. Smiling, I told him I’d see him after lunch. We had no reason to believe that ‘after lunch’ would never happen and that this would be the date our lives sliced permanently in two.

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Abridged from Cleo: How a Small Black Cat Helped Heal a Family by Helen Brown, to be published by Hodder & Stoughton

more at...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-1248468/Helen-Brown-Cleo-clever-kitten-healed-familys-heartache.html

http://www.amazon.com/CLEO-Cat-Who-Mended-Family/dp/080653303X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1283360113&sr=1-1

[ceile]

1. very sweet....

[murielm99]

2. Cats aren't something to be 'got.' They turn up in people's lives

when they are needed. So true. Both times I have needed a cat in my life, one has turned up.

[BrklynLiberal]

3. True..every one of my cats has come to me...I never went looking.