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Julie Little

Julie Little

My daemon, our family's sweetheart

Emily Sanders Hopkins
Aug 29, 2024
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I first met Julie Little in 2005 when she was in a cage stacked on top of other cages outside a pet store in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. On a tip, I’d taken the train down to that part of town, hoping the famous Cat Lady would be there, her cages set up on this sidewalk.

As could have been predicted, the Cat Lady was a no-nonsense seeming person i…

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