Angel+M’s+Final+AmEx+2013+Speech

=Title of Speech= Our Childhood Pets Should Live Forever

=Text of Speech= In the America I want to live in nothing would be changed, nothing would be changed except for one thing, our childhood feline friends and furry hounds would live forever. These beloved pets would never mysteriously disappear without a trace, they would never get steam rolled by a truck as they crossed the street, they would never be given away to another family by our parents. And essentially our beloved pets would never die and always be with us.

I remember a point in my life, a very low one, after the obscure disappearance of my favorite little 11 pound companion, Amber, my cat. Greeting her after a long day at school as she laid leisurely on the couch was one of my favorite things to do. Catching a swift glimpse of that little black and orange calico creature as she clambered through the trees just to bring me a nice bird always brightened my day. When she did that weird thing that cats do right before they go to sleep where thy press down on the blankets, that, always made me laugh. And the satisfaction as she cuddled next to me on a cold night made me a happy kid. Then one day, I let her out to take care of her business and she never came back. Like that, the love of my life was gone, erased, misplaced and untraced.

I still don’t know what happened to her, but I do know that I have and forever will miss her dearly.

Now if this was avoided, if it never happened, if our pets never disappeared and passed away, life would be made much better. People would be happier, the anger and sadness of many would be cured and joy would spread in this country like a wildfire, a wildfire that travels at the speed of light…so more like a real sudden explosion.

Kids would be happy, which would make adults happy, which would then make those adults enact forward thinking policy and take on greater humanitarian deeds. Our government would be righteous, banks reliable, the people prosperous and loyal, children ecstatic and America would once again be, that shining city on a hill.

In the America I want to grow up in I want to see kids playing with their loyal dogs in the parks forever, I want to be able to look at kids sleeping in the middle of the night and see them cuddling with their cats forever, I don’t want them to have to feel the repercussions of a lost pet. In this America we will somehow find a way to keep those awesome pets for our whole lives and not just have to keep memories.

Thank you.

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