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She sleeps the sleep of the very old, after all she is just a few months shy of being 17. Sometimes she does not wake up even when you rub her belly. A few years ago a trangression like that would have earned me a nip on the hand. I think she has earned the right to lay all sprawled out on my bed and not have a care in the world except to eat and sleep and to sometimes yowl like a crazy cat in the middle of the night.