R.I.P. to my "son," BBC the cat.

He was born in early 2001 (possibly very late 2000).

BBC was part of a colony of feral kittens who lived on my block in the East Falls neighborhood of Philadelphia. BBC and his sister OS were taken in to my rented home and soon moved to my house in the Roxborough neighborhood when I bought it in 2002. Socializing the siblings was a prolonged and involved process, but it worked out in the end. For 14.5 years we spent practically every day together since I've worked in my house the entire time. He was gentle and affectionate and quite delicate. On Monday morning he was struck ill and by early this morning he was dead, likely from a viral or bacteria infection. 

We will forever -- forever -- forever love and miss him.