Michelle the cat gets a forever home after 12 years in a Kansas City shelter

Because Kansas City isn’t a complete black hole of infinite sadness and despair, there’s this story: After 12 years in a Kansas City shelter, Michelle the cat has a forever home.

The Star‘s Dawn Borman has Michelle’s heartwarming story. She was abandoned at the Humane Society of Greater Kansas

City when she was just seven months old, then known as Nikki. She was left in a carrier with an apologetic handwritten note.