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The Cats & Dogs In Our Lives
August 15th, 2010, 10:13 PMAmy Dixon, BSN, RN, After Hours Supervisor, Customer Care Center
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This is Caramel. She’s a 16 year old female Calico cat that has been in my life since 1995. I brought her home from the Animal Protective League in Cleveland while I was in my second to last year of nursing school. She was 7 months old and feisty. 
Caramel has lived with me in a total of five different apartments since I graduated college. She consoled me through the end of a relationship, encouraged me with her approving meows into a new one, and she moved to New York with…
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