For about nine years and nine months, I have been blessed to be "cat mom" to the greatest little black cat who ever lived, Darcy. Since adopting him back in October of 2016, I had not spent one day fully apart from him until just a couple of days ago, when we had to say goodbye to him. He joined my dad in Heaven, and now my husband and I have to learn how to navigate the rest of our earthly lives without him. It's not going very well so far, but I know time will help. Baby Da

I enjoy lurking around on r/americangirl from time to time. Sometimes I learn really useful and obscure tips about American Girl dolls, like how to tell if a doll's vinyl is leeching plasticizer. Sometimes I marvel at amazing restorations or incredible secondhand finds. And sometimes, I see astute observations that make me go, "Oh snap! Yeah, I see it!" That's exactly what happened when I saw this thread by Reddit user, "callmeselinakyle." They noticed that Wednesday kind of