A little moment of happy

[SeattleGirl]

I realize this isn't the kind of thing we usually post in the main threads, but after the last couple of days, I thought we could all use a pick-me-up. And that's what this story did for me.

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The seven-year-old boy trapped in a silent world... until his cat Jessi taught him to speak

When Lorcan Dillon uttered the words ‘I love you’, for the first time, his mother Jayne was understandably elated.

‘I was so moved, but I had to hold myself in check,’ she says. ‘No matter how excited I felt, I didn’t want him to realise just how important it was for me to hear those precious words.’

But this seven-year-old boy’s first declaration of love wasn’t directed at his devoted mother. Instead, it was aimed at the family cat — a loveable ball of fluff named Jessi-Cat.

Lorcan, at the time, was a lonely little boy trapped in world of silence by a condition called selective mutism, which left him unable to talk or express emotion.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/articl...z26Q67eQZU

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Good kitteh!

[jaxx]

What a wonderful story. Thanks for sharing.