#22 of 92: The Making of a Recluse

Posted on October 22, 2026 by

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It is just a brief (and metaphorical) journey from where I sit to a house at the end of a long narrow dirt road where there would be three cats curled on the front porch steps and an old tire filled with dying geraniums nearly hidden in knee-high weeds, an area that, in another time, would be a lawn.

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Category: 92, Cat, New Life

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