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If you feel overwhelmed, angry or frustrated as a parent, help is out there for you. Look in your area for support groups and services, or talk to a trusted friend, family member, pastor or doctor about what you can do to protect and support your child. If we all do our part to prevent child abuse, well get to the heart of the matter. Acton/Georgetown, Friday, April 25, 2008 7 Every barn should have at least one cat. Mind you, its rare that there only be one cat, if you let Mother Nature have her way. Barn cats are a different breed than house cats. Theyre adaptable, resourceful, and, best of all, they dont require a litter box. While revitalizing my barn, a friend offered me a really nice barn cat to fill that void in the stable. He told how this cat had been abandoned, tossed into a recycling bin, res- cued by some locals and later placed in a barn. Someone named her Paper, being found in the newspaper recycling bin. I found that quite a coincidence, with me working in the newspaper business, and I could only imagine shed slept on back issues of The Independent & Free Press while detained there. We decided to change her name to Paige. (The Sidekick thinks its a play on the Front Page thing, but in reality its all about Paige Davis, the host of Trading Spaces on TV.) So Paige, our gray and white striped puss, landed at the Brown farm on a snowy December afternoon, during the heaviest snowfall of the month. It was perfect timing. With so much snow on the ground, there was little chance shed leave the warm barn to try and find her way back home, wherever home might be. Actually, moving to my barn was an upgrade for her there were cattle in my barn, and none where she came from. So Paige immediately captured the heart of The Sidekick and me, and anyone else she met. She was one of those talkative cats, who meows away as she rubs against your leg, arm, body you name it, shes just downright friendly. But more than two weeks ago, we went to the barn one morning to find the stable was bare, no Paige in sight. I searched the upstairs in the barn, just to be sure, and even checked the granary, on the off chance shed accidentally been locked in there. Notta Paige in sight. It being early April, with the snow just nicely melted, I assumed the obvious had hap- pened. I figured Paige had become coyote fodder. She had spent many warm sunny after- noons, curled up on the concrete foundation of the old silo, soaking up the sun. I figured that had been her demise, as a coyote sneaked up on her. I searched all the way around the barn, making sure that if there were some Paige-like remains, Id have them buried before The Sidekick or anyone else found them. Time went on and everyone eventually accepted the same conclusion the coyotes had got her. Everyone, except The Sidekick. Im an eternal optimist, she said, over and over, Shell be back. Tuesday morning The Sidekick went to the barn to gather the eggs and made a discovery. The cat came back. Perhaps a little thinner, and sporting a voracious appetite, but she was back, meow- ing and rubbing against her as before, and none the worse for wear. Just before she left, Paige had been experi- encing some passionate spells. With no male cats around, I now wonder if she decided to go out and enlist one to fill her needs. Miraculously, shed crossed the expanse of fields without becoming a coyotes lunch, all in the name of love I suspect. I e-mailed the concerned parties Tuesday morning to announce the good news. My eldest daughter promptly replied, Hooray for our little Paigey-Poo!!! And you had given her up for coyote meat.... never underestimate a female! Funny, that was the same thing The Sidekick had said, many, many times in the past two weeks. (Ted Brown can be reached at tbrown@independentfreepress.com) The cat came back... Ted Brown