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A Stray Cat Started Sleeping on His Front Step. He Was 91 and Hadn't Left the House in Four Months. Then Everything Changed.
Arthur had lived in the same house for sixty-two years. His wife had died in the bedroom at the end of the hall. His children lived in other cities and called on Sundays.
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For four months in the winter of his ninety-first year, Arthur did not go outside.
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