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Burned Out!

Rescued kitten brings a smile to vet.

by Eve Silberman

posted 6/7/2013

"I've had a lot of adventures in my life, but I could have done without this one," says Tom Fournier, eighty-seven. As he cleaned up his kitchen one night last month, he noticed light flickering outside his window--and found his front porch in flames. He left quickly by the back door, and then, from a neighbor's porch, watched "thirty-four years of my life

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