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Date Posted: 11:20:20 09/08/02 Sun
Author: Kande's Sis, sniffling
Subject: CW, Kande and Stardoe pale at the news
In reply to: Kande's Sis coos 's message, "Ooh...a celebrity in our midst!" on 12:29:40 09/06/02 Fri

They quickly exit the lab and make their way over to KS's victorian home. Along the way, CW picks some flowers and Kande stops and bullies Bubba into getting out Sterzings potato chips from the Klub safe. Stardoe knows her company will be enough solace.

As they wind their way up the brick pathway to KS's home, they silently nod to other visitors carrying flowers and casseroles. Nimbly avoiding the traps KS had forgotten to reset, they knock timidly at the door. It is soon opened by JD, who is dressed in black tee shirt and jeans and holds a finger to his lips. They tiptoe up the stairs and peek into a room.

KS is rocking next to a hamster cage, blowing her nose into a kleenex. Aunt Madge is at her side, patting her shoulder. Rabid is sitting in the corner, reading aloud from the Bible. Stepping quietly into the room, the trio can see hamsters with little nurse's caps and aprons scurrying around in the cage.

"Hamster hospice," JD mouths from across the room where he's taken up his vigil again next to KS. KS turns and sees them. Her eyes are reddened and a shiny stream of snot is beneath one nostril.

"Thank you for coming," KS tells them gravely. "I'm sure Sweetie appreciates it." The trio walk over to say their goodbye's to Sweetie the hamster, who has been suffering from breast cancer all these months and lived much longer than the vet had anticipated. They peer into the cage where they see Sweetie tenderly tucked into a jewelry box with stuffing to keep her warm. Her eyes are closed and her breath is labored. The entire room finds themselves breathing with her, holding their breaths until she inhales again.

Kande rushes from the room, fist to her mouth. CW follows her.

"And to think, I called her a dwarf!" she sobbed.

CW looks puzzled. "Well, isn't she? A dwarf hamster, that is?"

"Yes, but it's so unpolitically correct!" Kande wails. "If KS hadn't gone to that class in London, Canada I would never have known how cruel I was being!"

Aunt Madge comes to the doorway and hushes them. "It won't be long now," she pronounces.

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Replies:

"Sweetie!" Bubba screams as he runs into the room. -- kande, 04:26:01 09/09/02 Mon
- Pronounced dead at 12:43 p.m. on September 8 -- Kande's Sis, 06:56:38 09/09/02 Mon
  - Kande jumps at this -- CW, 08:00:22 09/09/02 Mon
    - Not realizing that boxer dogs are notorious jumpers -- Kande's Sis, 20:46:12 09/09/02 Mon
      - Later, Stardoe quietly closes the door under the staircase. -- kande, 03:45:04 09/13/02 Fri
        Kenamom moves closer to the structure -- Property assessment tables in hand, 09:15:03 09/13/02 Fri
        The crowd moves to the periwinkle bush -- Kande's Sis, 21:58:36 09/13/02 Fri
        A clump of CW's hair is thrown by an unseen hand. -- kande, 13:19:26 09/16/02 Mon
        Bubba overcomes his despair and throws himself bodily... -- Kande's Sis, 22:00:51 09/16/02 Mon