Well my dear Denis I can hardly believe it has been one year, I guess I expected time to stand still when you left. As you know I struggled not to shed a tear on the 21st December, I know you make sure that I am always busy on that day just so you don't see me cry. You do always let me cry on the following day though.

So what did we do to celebrate your life one year on? Well we gift wrapped up 70 treats and toys for the cats and 50 of the same for the dogs. Each animal at the shelter will now have a present to wake up to on Christmas morning, along with a whole car load of other goodies that we managed to collect. I can't do much for those on the other side but I can do something for those on this side. None of the cats there had anything to play with, not even the little kittens so now they do and I hope it manages to brighten up there life just a little bit.

I hope you have a wonderful Christmas in Heaven this year, especially now that you have Lucy with you too, I will be thinking of you both, Christmas is not Christmas anymore without you two. Thank you for being here for me once again, I knew you wouldn't let me down, but what a strange sign you sent, I spent all the next day trying to figure it out. I know I am always a bit slow on the up take so you will have to bear with me whilst I work it out. Anyway Denis, you will always know where to find me down here and I am sending my love to you both up there this Christmas, take care my man, you are always in my heart.

On the evening of the 21st I stepped outside the front door, it was dark, except that the rose arch round the front door was lit up with the fairy lights. Out of the corner of my eye, standing in the window box was a black cat with big ears, a 2D black cat. I felt immediately the same feeling that I feel when I have seen Denis in the 3D form so I knew what I was looking at. I cound not understand why he came through in 2D instead of 3D as he has before and what did the big ears mean, why big ears, it had to mean something to me.

Well after a lot of thought here is my stab in the dark. Denis had big ears when he was a kitten but slowly grew into them, coincidently Denver had big ears but now fits them too. 2D may mean two D's as in Denis and Denver. For a while now I have been thinking how uncanny it is that Denver is so much like Denis, it is hard to believe. Either I have been given a cat very much like Denis or he has come back to me through Denver. Their personalities, their ways, are almost identical. Many a time I look at Denver and think that I am looking straight at Denis again.

I may be wrong, I may be reading too much into things, but I am used to seeing Denis in the 3D form when he comes through and it seems odd for him to send this sort of sign. Hey for all I know he may just have been too busy to attend in person! I guess these things we will never really know exactly what they mean until we can ask them, given that when we do meet again we will both be able to speak the same language this time!

Have a wonderful Christmas everyone, if you happen to be reading this, not long now, I have a very excited daughter to get to bed before Father Christmas arrives on a few hours.

Merry Xmas and Happy Holidays to all.

The first year is so hard, and Denis was so special. I'm thinking of you. You did a wonderful thing to help the shelter dogs and cats, thank you.

You and your family have a great Christmas.

Love

You are truly such a special person for what you did for all of those precious babies at the shelter. Wishing you so much happiness during this holiday season! Please keep us posted here if Denver is truly Denis coming back or even if you discover that both are kindred souls. What a special sign in time for Christmas!

Merry Christmas to you and yours dear EM! You know I think that some animals can live within the others maybe....just because a lady i know lost her soulmate cat and shortly afterwards she accepted to foster this older deaf dog that had been abandonned. the dog sleeps at the same spot by her bed as her soulmate cat did and he pulls her robe to the floor just like her soulmate used to. another thing is that she has fallen in love with this old dog, she never expected to, I wonder if her soulmate isn't hiding in there just like your DD story. I think that my father inhabits a part of me now and actually his spirit presence guides me. Nothing to prove it of course but a nice comforting thought
that there is more than what the eye can see.