On the Back Porch

Oh these cats, the woman said. They're everywhere!

Her daughter quietly listened from 200 miles away.

They're driving me nuts. There's three little ones on the back porch.

The daughter continued listening. She probably pictured the back porch in her mind. She had gone up those steps and in and out of that door many times.

I don't know where they came from, the mother continued.

Wait, the daughter must have thought. There has hardly been a lack of cats on that porch in recent years, and we all know where little ones come from, don't we? She must have thought something like that.

Then the mother added, They're pretty cute, though.

They probably both had a good laugh.

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