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My friend works in a shelter, and when I decided to get a second cat, I told her to call me as soon as she got any black kittens. “The first black kitten is mine,” I told her.
The black kitten I intended to pick up didn’t like me at all and hissed at my purse. I took his sister instead, and it took a while to find a name for her. My then-boyfriend was into Babylonian mythology and found a name: Mulan, which translates to heavenly star.
So the kitten settled in and grew. She was healthy and there were no obvious signs of her being inbred, except for her extreme clumsiness. I am a very clumsy person, but this cat? She really manages to walk along the windowsill and stumble over her own paws. She fell off trees and ran into walls and I had to take her to the vet (who loves her, too) a few times.
PHOTO: MARIE FROM COLOGNE, GERMANY
One day, my boyfriend asked me at what age cats grow up. I said that it’s usually when they are around a year old that they start to behave less like kittens. Well, Mulan turned five in December, and she still behaves like a kitten. I adore her playfulness and clumsiness, and I love her with all my heart. And when she gives me a cat kiss and bumps her head against my forehead, I think she loves me, too.
Story submitted by Marie from Cologne, Germany.
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