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A compelling memoir of your gay Catholic girl desperate for balance between being truly a daughter and a mother raising her child with a adoring partner in the face of discrimination. From enough time she was created, Michelle Theall knew she was different. Arriving of age in the Tx Bible Belt, a place where it was undesirable to be gay, Theall found herself at odds with her tight Roman Catholic parents, bullied by her classmates, forgotten by her evangelical best ally whose mother spoke in tongues, and kicked out of Christian organizations that stated to accept her - all before she'd ever organised a girl's side. Shame and her longing for her mother's acceptance led her to refuse her feelings and finally try to escape to a distant stretch out of mountains in Colorado. There, she made her home by using an elk migration journey facing the Continental Separate, talking with God every day, but rarely seeing another human being. At 43 years of age and seemingly settled in her decision to exist openly as a gay girl, Theall and her partner attempt to have their child baptized into the Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church in the liberal town of Boulder, Colorado. Her quest to have her child accepted into the Church leads to a battle with Sacred Heart and with her mother that leaves her questioning everything she thought she knew about the bonds of family and beliefs. And she realizes that in order to be a good mother, she may need to be a bad daughter. Instructing the Pet cat to Stay examines the present day assignments of motherhood and religion and demonstrates our infinite capacity to love gets the power to shape us all.
