[WP] Write a story in which the last line is a common phrase, such as, "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger," but when we get to that line, it should have a totally different meaning from the common one.

It never made sense why Alice never played with her cat. She did acknowledge him, sort of. A little girl with long brown hair always wearing green dresses made entirely of silk she had everything a child her age could want. Although her parents came from a long line of old money, they always made sure Alice had her chores in which she cared for all of her animals. She had a small dog named Simon and even a Pony called Marie that rested with her family’s other Horses in the stables. She loved her pets. She fed them, took care of them, even showed them off to her friends at school. But for some reason, though, she seemed to be afraid of her cat. He was brown and spotty, almost like a tiger. He loved to play with the other animals ever since her parents brought him home from their house on the beach. None of the animals seemed to want to play with such an overexcited cat, chasing imaginary mice all over the yard. One evening he even broke her mother’s favorite vase while chasing said imaginary friends. This cat, you could say, was not very popular. He didn’t even have a name. Day after day he kept to himself watching Alice play with the others from the window wondering why he had no friends.

One day Alice was taking her mid afternoon nap while all of a sudden, the horses stared to get a little frisky in the barn and made a lot of noise that woke her up suddenly. Even her Pony, Marie, became roweled. She heard her dog bark and wondered what was going on. 

“Stop it!” she yelled at her animals. “What’s going on here?” she uttered. As she looked around the stable, she saw something weaving around in the hay.

“A mouse! A Mouse!” she screamed. “Cat! Cat! Where are you? Come and get this mouse!” she yelled some more.

The cat was nowhere to be found. Perhaps he was not feeling welcome. Who knows where he wondered off? “Perhaps another family?” she thought. Suddenly the mouse was not alone. He had another much bigger mouse with him. The bigger mouse charged at Alice. Scared and frozen, Alice stood in shock as the big vermin headed in her direction, faster and faster.

“Cat!” she screamed and then fell to the floor unconscious. As Alice awoke in her bed, she realized it was just a dream. Her cat sitting by her bed licking his paws clean.

“Oh, Cat! How I’ve missed you!” she said picking him up and squeezing him tight. “I guess I don’t know what I’ve got until it’s gone.”

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