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Fup. Store Cat.
The Trip to Kahani
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Bear
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Zooey
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Fup and Ro had never seen so many people together at once. Mothers pushed prams along pathways, picnickers crowded onto blankets, young men and women arranged themselves on softball fields or dribbled across basketball courts, children jumped rope and threw Frisbees. Through the morning and well into the afternoon the four cats wandered and watched, climbing trees of all sizes, chasing squirrels and birds.
"There was still plenty of daylight left when we made it back to the hotel," Fup tells the crowd around the fire, "still an hour or two before Mr. Warren's banquet would be starting. But our parking space was empty. The truck wasn't there."
One last log continues to burn, throwing thin shadows across the faces gathered around, and up, above them, through heavy branches and leaves.
"Where did Warren go?" one camper, the man, wants to know.
His wife asks, "Warren didn't leave without you?"
"Clara was in the truck!" Joe remembers.
Fup confirms, "Mr. Warren didn't stay to receive his medal. As soon as the Ben Franklin tour was over, he headed back to Maine. We never saw him again."
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