HE SAID HE WAS JUST “KEEPING HER WARM”—BUT IT WAS WAY MORE THAN THAT

HE SAID HE WAS JUST “KEEPING HER WARM”—BUT IT WAS WAY MORE THAN THAT

I saw him on the Blue Line. Two seats from the back, coat zipped up to his chin, shoes falling apart at the seams. He had the kind of tired that doesn’t come from sleep—it comes from life.

But what got me wasn’t him. It was what he was holding.

A tiny kitten, no more than a few weeks old, curled up in the crook of his arm like she’d been there her whole life. He held her so gently, like she was made of paper and dreams. She was fast asleep, paws tucked under her chin, purring so loud I could hear it over the train.

Nobody else seemed to notice.

So I sat across from him and asked, softly, “Is she yours?”

He looked down at her, smiled, then said, “No. She just found me.”

He told me he’d discovered her three nights ago in an alley behind a bakery. Crying. Wet. Cold. He gave her the last bit of his sandwich and wrapped her in the only dry scarf he had. “Figured I could give her one warm night,” he said. “But she stayed.”

I asked where he was taking her.

“Somewhere better,” he said. “Someone left a note on the bench at 6th and Maple. Said they’d help if I brought her back alive.”

A note?

I raised an eyebrow. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a folded napkin. On it, scribbled in blue pen:

“She answers to ‘Mina.’ Please don’t leave her. If you find her—bring her home.”

And on the back, a phone number.

But the part that made my chest tighten?

It was signed: “Her little girl.”⬇️

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