There must be many lonely women who have felt the same emotions that Joan felt.
Read on to see how she coped.
ANSWERED PRAYER
ZELDA MARGO
She prayed, really prayed to have a meaningful relationship, that her long season of
loneliness would end.
“Joan, get a cat. You are allowed cats in your building.”
“Don’t you know that I have an irrational fear of cats?”
Those were the times when Joan toched the rough bottom of people’s good intentions.
Felt that no-one understood her or wanted to.
When Brad came into her life it was a prayer answered. He lived in London, had
business interests in South Africa. The long distance feature of their romance was not
ideal, but made a huge difference in 38-yr old Joan’s life.
“Joan, come live in London. Yes, I do know that it is not an easy decision. What I’m
really saying is marry me.”
Brad had entered Joan’s life and Joan happily entered marriage and Brad’s elegant
apartment in St John’s Wood. There, to her dismay was a never-mentioned, big black
yellow-eyed disdainful and pregnant cat.
“Joan, meet Kat, with a capital K. Isn’t she something?”
Joan had shunned visiting people who had cats.
“Brad, I’m ill at ease with cats. I don’t like them. They snarl, they scratch. They are
selfish and condescending.”
“Darling, what you have to understand is that a cat is a cat is a cat. Natural born hunters.
Tigers inside. They’re great.”
The love of her life so insensitive to her distress. She was a mature person who had
made a commitment, so did what she had to do to make things work.
Kat’s dreaded babies arrived and on soft paws walked into her heart. She had been shut
down, the kittens made her fully present for Brad and London.
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