Cat Lady Goes Out to Feed Her Pets and Meets Skinny Orphan Boy Begging for Food — Story of the Day
A woman who loves cats is shocked when she finds a little boy looking for scraps among the strays she feeds and his story breaks her heart.
Camilla Gorman was a harsh and bitter woman, and it was whispered around town that she had suffered disappointment in love. She never smiled, never had a kind word to say to anyone, and her only soft spot was her love for animals.
Camilla was particularly fond of cats, and not only did she have eight cats of her own, but she also fed the neighborhood strays in her backyard. To the town kids, she was the Bad Cat Lady, and no one ever imagined that anything without fur could touch Camilla’s heart. They were wrong.
Sam kept hoping that somewhere, somehow he’d find his true home | Source: Shutterstock.com
The person who would touch her heart and bring her back into her community didn’t live very far from her, and he wasn’t very big. His name was Sam Varten and he was just 7 years old.
Just nine months before, Sam had lost his entire family — mom, dad, and big sister — in a car crash. Sam had been spared because he’d had Little League practice and he caught a ride with his best friend who lived next door.
From one moment to the next, Sam’s life had turned upside down. There was no one to take him in, and his only living uncle had refused to become his guardian, explaining that he traveled constantly and wasn’t willing to shoulder the responsibility.
His best friend’s mom, a struggling single mother, had desperately wanted to help Sam. but she just didn’t have the financial capacity to raise two children. So finally, Sam was placed in an orphanage.
Sam’s family died in a car accident | Source: Pexels
As we all know, institutions can never replace a family, even though the people who worked there did their best. Most of the kids there had never had a loving family like Sam’s.
Most had been in and out of foster care their entire lives, and those that had families had been taken away because their homes were dysfunctional. Among those children, sadly hardened to life at such a young age, Sam was a misfit.
He missed his family desperately, and many nights he cried himself to sleep, clutching a wet pillow. The once outgoing and sociable Sam was now shy and withdrawn,...