Dear Mom, Dad, Kipper and Preston:
I am not exactly sure where I am, but I wanted to get this letter off to you without further delay. You’ll be pleased to know I feel fine and am no longer in any pain. Throughout it all, my spirit and soul have remained intact. I feel immortal.
It was certainly a great run, full of excitement and adventure. I tried my best to hang in there, but it was finally more than I could handle, and the Great Cat in the Sky called me to my final resting place. I am of course sorry my life with the family couldn’t have lasted longer, but the way things got to be, it was for the best. Dad, thanks for realizing I was in distress and for making my last hours more comfortable. And Mom, thanks for coming over the next morning to say goodbye to me. It comforted me to know you cared that much. In fact, the day years ago when you and Dad came to look at all of us, I knew right away you were the one for me. I told Preston many times how lucky we were to find such loving parents and such a good life. I also told him that I loved his constant affection and protection and how much fun it was looking out at the world together every morning at the birds, the flowers, and just taking in the smells. It may have seemed like cat TV to Mom and Dad, but it was real to us.
Kipper, thanks for making all those advances and passes at me because it made me feel sexy and for all the times you and Preston groomed me. And thanks to both Mom and Dad for rubbing my underbelly so that I could show off my loud purring motor so that you would know how much I loved you both. Sometimes humans are slow to understand.
I still have much to look forward to. Even though I am gone, I am aware that my brother Kipper is not feeling well. Who would ever have guessed that I would leave before he did. Still, I suspect that one of these days fairly soon now, he will join me and we can together reach out and release our sunbeams so they can join the setting sun. Then, we can fly away together to a special little paradise where the sun always shines, the sunsets are as red as rubies, and all the days are peaceful and ideal for catnaps.
And Preston, even tho you may feel lonely and wonder where we are, I’ll think of you often and wish we could still all be together. Who knows-­maybe Mom and Dad will get a brother or sister for you to spoil, and to keep you company. Please don’t forget me and know how much I loved you all
Meanwhile, I’ll try my best to keep in touch.
Yours forever, Petunia Cat

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