It is nine o’clock on a November evening. Kathryn is staying after school at her grandparents’ house. She has escaped their company to play with her grandmother’s cat, named Lucy, by moving into the sunroom of the house. After some minutes of happily petting the cat it has turned on Kathryn, penetrating the skin of her left index finger with its fangs and raising three lines of skin on her left wrist with the claws of its left paw. In response to Lucy’s attack, Kathryn has grabbed at the cat in an effort to disentangle herself from it. She has been fortunate enough to find the cat’s collar with three fingers of her right hand. This has allowed her sufficient purchase on Lucy’s slippery form to remove the cat to the carpeted floor of the sunroom. Kathryn has placed her injured finger in her mouth so as to contain her pain and her blood. She has then recognized that she has wet herself and has simultaneously taken the finger from her mouth.
2001
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Fiberglass reinforced polyester resin, polyurethane foam, oil paint, synthetic hair wig, natural hair eyelashes and eyebrows, silver bracelet, cat's collar, wood, wallpaper, wooden corner cabinets, wood and glass doors with metal hardware, couch, silk bead spread, acrylic medium, light fixture, enamel paint, potted plants, synthetic flowers, snow dome, porcelain decorative objects, mirror in wooden frame, books, balls of colored wool, children's toys, framed photograph, framed pastel drawing, umbrella, synthetic and silk draperies, telephone, ash tray with cigarette butt.
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