#661 Felina- Guadalupe Nettel
Animals can be just as caring as humans, and often can take the place of humans for roles of companionship and friendship. A doctoral student once had roommates, but now she had two cats, a male and a female. They quickly take up the place in her life that her roommates and casual romantic partners one held.
Both the female cat and her got pregnant at he same time, and comforted each other during the process. When she lost her pregnancy (an act of fate), the cat’s childbirth was kind of a spiritual surrogacy for her own. There was a lot of surrogacy in this story; people or animals taking the place of others. There was also a lot about fate and choice.
“A team of scientists I met a few months later at Princeton University claim that if they put all our genetic information, education, and the most significant events in our lives into a computer and give us a hundred different dilemmas and make us choose for each one, the machine would figure out our responses before we could think of them. In reality—so they say—we don’t make decisions. All of our choices are predetermined.”
Whether fate or not, her decision to go to Princeton was made, or at least helped along by someone else. And when it was made for sure, the cats made their own choice too.
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