Hi all dis be SaraFerret. My human apologys for her slowness in posting as she had sicky people in family plus now she has 8 fuzzies. So here goes. I happens to be on duty when Little Star comes across. She was so shy and cwying dat she just stops in fronts of de swinging Rainbow Bwidge. Oh- oh-- windy day and so I holds on tights to de hand ropes and crawls acwoss de bwidge till I gets to her. She held onto mes for dear life saying I dont knows you, but help me get acwoss dis swinging ting. So together we makes it acwoss. At de entrance, I introduces myself as SaraFerret, one of de bwidge greeters. She notices my big wings right away. Wowsie do I get wings like dat and where am I? Yes you gets wings in any color you wants excepts white. White is reserved for de gweeters and for de big angels like Michael and Gabriel and dose guys. Hey if I gets dose wings can I go back to Mommy Susan and my fwiends at de shelter. Uh no I tells her, dis is home now but one day your humans will come acwoss and dey will be wit you. A big big tear drops from her eyes--poor little girl I tought. I did someting I seldom do--I hugs her and says she can stay wit me for a while if she wants until she finds some other group to stay wit. Really, really you want me to be your ferret friends. Well sure, I says, I dont often get to make lots of friends cuz I is busy. I hopes you dont mind dat I have two kits dat live wit me--Serena and Isabel. She asks me if dey are my babies--well no I says, but when dey came here it seems dat de humans had just twown dem away and so dey had no one, and dey adopted me. Can I adopt you she asks. A big tear drops from my eyes as I thought dat Missy Susan had a marvelous shelter and it was such an honor for one of her babies to want me to be dere mommy. So Little Star says gweat now I have a Mommy and I gets to be your kit. Can I sleep wit you too? (I'm thinking I will have to get a supersize hammie for all four of us. You can sleep wit me until you dont want to. Here I was a sorta not pretty ferret and little ferrets wants me to be dere mommy. I asks her if she would likes to go over to Kit and Kaboodle where all de wings are--so she could pick out her own. So dere we were looking tru de wings when Auntie Mary Ferret came out to help us. Little Star tells her dat she has a Mommy now and Auntie Mary says well who could dat be. Its Mommy SaraFerret. Well isnt dat wonderful Auntie says. Well we is going to have to pick out special ruffly wings for Ms SaraFerret's newest kit angel. And suddenly dere appeared the most beautiful wings we had ever seen. Now Auntie was even shocked as dose were not ones she had even seen before. A gauzy blue ruffly pair of wings and she tried dem on LIttle Star and of course dey just fit. No one could even figure where dey came from until de voice says I chose dem for our newest kit to arrive. Little Star asks who says dat. Auntie spoke up and said dat was de Boss who is in charge of all of us and wowsie what an honor. It seems when de wings were put on, someting happened--no longer was she naked--she had a beautiful sable fur and she and all of us were just stunned. We put her halo on and of course I got a big supersized hammie for all of us plus a smaller one in case she wanted a naptime all by herself. She stood in front of de mirror and just stared. I asks her if she would like to look around de place and she says well, I is kinda tired. I tells her dat dere would be plenty of time for de tour of de place. But dere was a special pwace I wants to take her to. So we trots off to de reflecting pool. And she said oh what pretty blue water. Just wait I tells her--dere is a surprise place. I sishes de water around and den she saw Missy Susan and Annie looking really sad, and Missy Susan was crying and she yells out to her and said I is here and I is ok and I adopts Missy SaraFerret as my new Mommy and she saw her look up and wonder where a voice she was hearing was coming from and den Missy Susan saw a rainbow appear and at de end of it saw an outline of her little Star in her new clothes and she waves and was happy. But de biggest surprise will be when Missy Susan falls asleep tonite and Little Star will hop on a comet and put a kiss and a soft dook on her cheek and when she wakes up the vague scent of her Little Star and a wet stain from a kiss will be there and then she will know for sure. So ends another day at de bwidge and what a great day it was. Hugs and dooks SaraFerret [Posted in FML issue 5349]