It will be a great homecoming!
My daughter's house is like a magnet for strays..Purty was a stray that climbed in her attic and had kittens..They heard the mewing..I eventually got Purty because she attached herself to me and my room when I visited..and I talked them out of her..I loved that cat so much..She was always by my side and pulling funny stunts. I was never going to have another cat when she died of cancer..but I always say that because the loss hurts so much.
It surely does. But God always seems to send along another one just at the right time to take the pain away and make us laugh again.