LiLi's Rainbow Bridge Pet Loss Memorial

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Memories of LiLi

6/1/23 Hi sweet LiLi( aka Liam), I love and miss you so much! It's been a week & half since you went to the Rainbow Bridge but, it feels like an eternity. I'm so sad without you. Tears are starting to well up in my eyes as I write this. My beautiful sweet stray little girl. You entered my heart & then my home. I hope I gave you a better life than the one you had on the street. It took awhile but, I finally brought you in. 2 years of feeding you outside & 2 years of worrying that you wouldn't show up one morning or evening. Worrying you'd get hit by a car or that someone would hurt you in some way. I'm crying too hard to write anymore right now so, I'll close & write more soon. Love, Mommy xoxoxo 6/2/23 Hi Beautiful Girl, I love & miss you so much! Mommy's been crying alot the last couple of days! I hate it here without you!!! You got some lovely messages on your guestbook which brought me to tears, too. I keep expecting to see you sleeping under your favorite chair or looking out your favorite window or walking in the bathroom looking for love as I do my business. What is it with cats wanting attention from their person when they are using the toilet??!! Is it that you have a captive audience? Haha! I wish you were still here. My heart hurts without you. I'm so sorry you got sick. I did my best LiLi/Liam & you fought until the very end. Such a tough little street cat! I didn't want you to suffer so, I had to make that awful decision & let you go in peace. I can't believe you hobbled into the bathroom to use the kitty pan & you were nudging me one last time that day. I think you were the one comforting me, letting me know it was time & that you loved me. I miss your kind soft eyes & your little squeaky meows. I love you, Liam!!! Love always, Mommy xoxo 6/4/23 Hi Liam, I love you oodles & oodles! I think an explanation is in order for your 2 names. When you first started coming to my porch looking for love & food, I was unable to touch or get close to you as you were a stray. Don't know why but, I thought you were a boy so, I named you Liam. After months of patience & consistency, you gradually let me come nearer & nearer & then finally pet you. It was then that, much to my surprise, I discovered you were a girl!!! So, I renamed you LiLi! However,the name Liam had taken hold so, I used both names. I miss you, my LiLi/Liam!! I hope you are hanging out with Tori & she's showing you around a, & you're making new friends! Love always, Mommy xoxo 6/8/23 Hi Sweet LiLi, I love you so much! I picked up your wooden urn today & it's really beautiful. I'm very pleased with the engraving. I got it with both of your names on it & the day you went to Rainbow Bridge. You have a special spot on my bureau with your cards & dish around it. I put your favorite toy in with you along with some of your fur & a whisker. Now you are safe & all tucked in inside. I miss you something awful!!! Love always, Mommy xoxoxo 6/10/23 Hi Liam, I love and miss you! Sometimes I get so mad that you aren't here anymore. It's just not fair! It really stinks that you didn't even get to spend a full year at our new home. I want to say that I am so very sorry that I had to jab you with the back scratcher thing to get you out from under the bed on that terrible day!!! I know I upset you & you were hissing at me a little. I had to get you into the crate (wish I hadn't had to do that!) to take you to the vets :(. You bit me, too, on 1 finger but, I know you didn't mean it. I'm so sorry I scared you. Please forgive me. My heart hurt without you! Love always, Mommy xoxoxo 6/12/23 Hi LiLi, I love you! Today is the 13 year anniversary of Tori going to the Bridge. I'm so sad, missing you & her so much! I pray my little girls are together having fun & healthy again. I can't help thinking I didn't do enough for you & that I should have taken you in sooner. I hope you can understand why I didn't. We didn't have enough time together!! I'm really missing you & your absence has left a HUGE hole in my life & heart!!! Love always, Mommy xoxo 6/14/23 Hi Sweet Girl, I love you! Mommy is really missing you tonight & I feel so sad without you. It's really unfair that you got sick. Who knows what your life was like before finding me. You deserved to have a good life. I wish it could have been longer with me. I'm so sorry. Love always, Mommy xoxo 6/19/23 Hi Liam, love you so much!!! Yesterday was Father's Day so, that was a little rough for me. However, I trust you & Tori & the dogs we had through the years celebrated with him! I wanted to say thank you, Sweet Girl, for opening your eyes when I asked you that very difficult question at the vets. I know you understood me & just like with Tori many years ago, us humans worry that we are making the wrong decision. I miss you deeply! Love always, Mommy xoxo 6/24/23 Hi LiLi, love & miss you so much!!! Well, I tried to get a memorial necklace to put some of your ashes in & 2x got the wrong one so, I'll be ordering a completely different one soon. I hope you don't mind if I put some of Tori's in there, too. That way I will have both my girls with me all of the time. Love always, Mommy xoxo 6/27/23 Hi Liam, just wanted to tell you how much I love you........ALOT!!! Been having lots of rain & bad thunderstorms here. You probably wouldn't like it too much! Frankie got scared earlier & ran and went under the bed. He's still there! I miss you so much, little girl! Love always, Mommy xoxo 7/6/23 Hi Loodle Doodle ( one of my nicknames for you), I love you, Little Girl!! I'm so glad you came into my life and I got to have your sweet presence in it. They say that stray kitties choose their person & home. If that is true, how lucky I am that it was me!!! Thank you. Our time together was too brief but, I know you are waiting with Tori & we'll be together again one day. I hope I did enough & made your life better. I feel bad that I didn't take you in to stay sooner. You just seemed so miserable in the morning after the 2 times I was able to bring you inside out of the brutal cold. When you didn't show up for almost 3 days after a really bad snowstorm, I thought you might have frozen to death. Oh, how I cried & worried. I couldn't find you anywhere & saw no kitty tracks either. The food I left out wasn't eaten. I was so sad. When you finally showed up, I was so relieved & happy. After I thought about it, I think maybe you couldn't get to the porch due to the snow being plowed so high in the parking lot & yard. I went out & created a path with my boots every time it snowed after that. I miss you so much!!! Love always, Mommy xoxoxo 7/11/23 Hi LiLi, I love you so much, Little Girl!!! The figurine I got for you with the angel holding a black cat finally came. I'm very happy with it & I hope you like it. I put it next to your urn. The rainbow colored heart pendant for ashes with the paw print on it came as well. I put some of you & Tori in there so, now I take the both of you everywhere I go! I miss you so much, Sweet Girl!!! Love always, Mommy xoxoxo 7/19/23 Hi my sweet LiLi, I love you! I'm so sad without you!!! I hope I did right by you & you know how much you mean to me! I'm angry that you're not here anymore. It's not fair. I imagine that your life wasn't so great before you found me & then I finally took you in. You survived the crazy traffic on Grant Ave., snowstorms, hot Summers, dealing with Frankie, & the move to the new place. Then you get f***ing cancer?!?! How messed up is that? You didn't deserve that! I'm so sorry, Little Girl. I think you were finally able to completely be yourself & then you got sick. I can feel the tears starting now. Sweet LiLi/Liam, my heart is broken without you. I love you, little Ludo!!!!! Love always, Mommy xoxoxo 7/21/23 Hi Sweet Girl, I love you so much! I want my Ludo back!!! Love always, Mommy xoxoxo :( 8/6/23 Hi my sweet LiLi, Mommy misses & loves you sooooo much! I miss your little black paw pads & footsers, your cute little mouth & lips, your beautiful black fur with those couple of random white hairs on your back, your gentle & quiet meows, and your loving presence in my life. I was thinking I wasn't mourning you in the right way because it's different from when Tori died. You both told me that's ridiculous. Of course it's different because you are 2 different kitties!!! I miss you & mourn you with all my heart & soul! Love always, Mommy xoxoxo 8/20/23 Hi Sweet Girl, I love you so much, Liam!! It sucks around here without you. Something got into the pot about a week ago where I planted your paper heart with the wildflower seeds & messed it up pretty bad! I was really upset. I was able to save the biggest piece & it seems to have rerooted itself. I'm keeping it inside now. I hope it blooms soon. I miss you. Love always, Mommy xoxo 9/9/23 Hi LiLi, I love you, sweet little girl! A friend of mine was telling me she thinks one of her dogs has cancer. Taking her to the vet on Tuesday. It made me think of you & how sad it was to find out you had cancer. I said to my friend that our furbabies enter our hearts & sometimes they break it, too. Then, I started bawling my eyes out!!! Even though it hurts, I wouldn't trade having you( & Tori) in my life for anything! On a happier note, your wildflowers rerooted themselves & have grown a bit more. Still waiting for them to bloom. I miss you so much, Liam!!! Love always, Mommy xoxoxo P.S. Frankie says hi!! :)

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