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Ash came to me through a friend of mine. She was one of the many kittens running around at our local community college my friend attended. She was only 6 weeks old when she spotted my friend and just followed him around the campus for the entire day he was there running errands for another friend.

As she followed him all day, he kept texting me asking me if I wanted a kitten, saying he was being stalked by a tiny ball of cute. I kept on saying that she probably had a mom nearby!

After a few hours of her following him and me getting texts about bringing her home, he finally sent me a text with a picture of her on his shoulder, looking out as if she had just conquered the world!

My friend is a really big guy, and the look on his face was just too cute for me to not let him take her home to me. He's also the one who named her Ash, as she looked like a ball of soot following him on a breeze.

Now she's home with me, happy as can be, waking me up with nibbles on my nose and demanding to be pet and held when I get home from work nearly every day. She's my lap kitty and a good guard, as she will growl at anything that she hears outside.

When winter comes around, she gets so fluffy that she gets a proper mane going and can barely groom it, it's so long! She will even play fetch from time to time with a hair tie being thrown down the hallway, and on her way back with it in her mouth, she practically sashays her way back to me.

Story submitted by Elizabeth Rasco from Redding, California.

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