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Viking Gold Mounted Crystal Pendant, 9th-11th Century AD

I bought AJ flowers every week. Whether she was in Chicago, there'd be flowers, or if she was in Tampa and I was in Chicago, in between being on the road… I would just call up a florist. I'm not saying everyday, but at least once a week. I'd never write anything on the card. 'Cause I was gonna see her in a couple days anyway. Like, what do you write? I'm not even sure we were at "I love you" yet.

I think we went out to get groceries, and I had the delivery come in. And on the card, I wrote, "Will you marry me?" We come back from getting groceries, there's the flowers, they're delivered, they just put them there. I'm probably pale... or gray... or just sweating. And we get inside, I've got these groceries, I put the groceries on the kitchen counter, and I'm just standing there [awkwardly] as she goes and gets the flowers and puts them on the counter. And then she starts putting the groceries away.

I'm like... [looking around nervously]. I'm just, like, looking at the flowers, and she turns around like, "Are you gonna help me put away the groceries?" Oh, yes, sorry. So now I'm putting the groceries away, you know? And she's not paying any mind to the flowers. Because usually there's nothing written on the card. Yeah, imagine that. Shot myself in the foot on that one.

We put the groceries away, and she's like, "Thanks for the flowers, babe." And I'm like [nodding awkwardly]. I can't describe how I was, I just had to be acting so weird. Hands in my pockets, standing really rigid, just looking at the flowers. She goes and sits on the couch and turns the TV on and she's like, "What are you doing?" And I'm just standing in the kitchen. Like a horror movie. She looks at me, and she figured something out. Enough to snatch the card and open it up.

🐈‍⬛ Cat lovers(&all animal lovers) around the world, please support 🐾˚ ༘♡ ⋆｡˚

Hello, animal lovers♡ I'm Aya, a guardian of 6 cats.

Let me share the problem about cats occuring in Japan.

According to Animal Acution Fund (公益財団法人どうぶつ基金), currently, in Japan, the Ministry of the Environment is trying to designate Ieneko (domestic cats and stray cats in the neighborhood) as "alien species to promote control".

Despite the lack of evidence that cats are causing the decline of rare native species, the government is trying to easily kill cats under the pretext of a World Heritage Site (especially in Okinawa and Amami).

The target includes not only stray cats, but also TNR cats and cats that go outside.

Even the cats kept entirely indoors, it become subject to extermination if they escape outside.

To begin with, cats are animals that cannot be designated as "Specified Invasive Alien Species."

Ieneko(domestic cat) is an animal that has lived with people in Japan for 2,000 years.

The Ministry of the Environment itself explains that the measures against alien species are mainly "living things brought in after 1868", so this does not apply to cats.

It is wrong thing animals that have lived with humans for 2000 years as targets for extermination.

Protecting rare native species is important, but the lives of cats are just as precious.

It should be carried out through this humanitarian and scientific method, not by taking lives.

It is wrong to blame specific animals for the ecosystems and nature that humans have destroyed.

There are no borders for cat (&animal) lovers. Please sign and convey your voice against it.

Thank you for your kindness to read this long post.

♡ from Tokyo, Aya & 6 ex stray cats.

Achaemenid Gold and Blue Bead Necklace, 1st ML BC