title: Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Cat Really Did That?: 101 Stories of Miracles, Mischief and Magical Moments
author: Amy Newmark
description: Amy Newmark is Publisher and Editor-in-Chief at Chicken Soup for the Soul.
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  ## [Map](9780062840271_Contents.xhtml#r_idParaDest-1)
  
  
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  ## [Dedication](9780062840271_Contents.xhtml#r_idParaDest-2)
  
  
  _For Emily Henry and Chloe Benjamin, for believing_
  
  
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  ## [Epigraph](9780062840271_Contents.xhtml#r_idParaDest-3)
  
  
  _In the dusk of the evening as I stroked Macak’s back, I saw a miracle which
  made me speechless with amazement. Macak’s back was a sheet of light, and my
  hand produced a shower of crackling sparks loud enough to be heard all over
  the house. . . . My mother seemed charmed. “Stop playing with the cat,” she
  said. “He might start a fire.” But I was thinking abstractly. Is Nature a
  gigantic cat? If so, who strokes its back? . . . I cannot exaggerate the
  effect of this marvelous night on my childish imagination. Day after day I
  have asked myself