Melanie Weiss (

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There was no use dwelling on it, Mel agreed. Yet, she couldn't help it. She supposed this was harder on those with families they were close to -- but her cat couldn't feed himself, and that worried her.

Rather than answer him, she picked up a squishy stress ball, giving it a good squeeze through its mesh covering before turning to face Colin. She had never been good at dealing with emotions, much less talking about them. It was much easier to avoid the topic altogether.

"Heads up!" she sang out, lobbing the stress ball at his chest. Plenty of baseball with the boys had given her a decent arm -- and, fortunately for Colin -- good aim.

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