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What the Hospice Cat Knows
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I call Diane, the senior nurse who trained me. She picks up on the first ring even though it's 3 a.m. "Which room?" she asks. When I say 14, there's a long silence. "Don't let the cat in," she says. "Whatever you do tonight, keep that door shut."
I do exactly what Diane says. I shut the door of 14 tight and stand guard all night. Marrow yowls and claws the wood until his paws bleed, but I don't open it. At dawn Mr. Avery is alive and confused, and the cat is gone. Diane finds me shaking in the hall. "You broke the rule," she whispers. "Now it's going to want someone instead. And it always gets paid."
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