La gatita Mi Mi

We are now living in the home of three women: a divorced mother, her 25 year old daughter, and the Queen of the house, black cat Mi Mi. She is very small, and at first I was sure she was a kitten, but she is more than 10 years old and a mother three times over. She follows us out onto the terrace that overlooks the city, and often sits in the window with the chicken wire screen, posing in front of the backdrop of La Iglesia Angelica. I have yet to make her purr. She drinks out of a silver goblet placed on the dining room table and yells most of the time for food. She and I battle often over the chair in the kitchen where we both like to roost and chat with La señora while she cooks, but she has started to let me relocate her from chair to lap.

el reina de la casa
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