She would have been 5 on July 1st. We lost her sister a couple of years ago to leukemia. Both were born within a week of my dad's passing. Bought them when they were just a few months old. My mom had always wanted a Persian, and when I met the lady selling them, she just had the two left, so I took them. They helped my mom (and me) through a tough time after losing my dad. Gave us something else to focus on. Not to mention I was in the midst of fighting cirrhosis myself, on my way to my eventual liver transplant. It made them mean that much more. They made a dent in all that hurt we were going through.