Women with cats -- often equals women without men. Why? Perhaps the indefinable mystery that lies at the root of a cat's brain simulates that of a reluctant man? Perhaps the cat's seeming independence, odd behavior, and merciless "running around at night" -- recalls the similar behaviors in a male.Whatever!
All I know is that as a widower the two women I have dated in their 50's are both "cat ladies" and both have strayed so far from what I would consider normal behavior as human beings, that they have infringed upon the time-honored image of "crazy old ladies with cats." I remember as a young newspaperboy delivering the Milwaukee Sentinel more than a half century ago that there was a woman on my route like that -- except that she had many, many cats. Most of them were orange tabbies and most of them resided on her front porch for three seasons of the year, and then cried unremittingly indoors during the wintry months. These cats were inscrutable, seemingly malevolent, and downright scary. As was the woman!
Cats perhaps "do that" to women without normal gender connections!
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