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A N
ew K
itten, A -"sew
Life for M
ary Ann
By W
ill Ellsw
orth-Jones
Tw
o m
onth
s ago M
ary
A n
n H
arbert w
as world
new
s. Now
she is h
istory
-a 26-year-old girl trying to pick
up th
e thread
s of h
er life after alm
ost four years of captivity in C
hina.
And y
esterday
she w
as giv
en so
meth
ing to
mak
e th
at difficu
lt task a little
easier — a fo
ur m
onth
old
R
ag D
oll cat to
keep
her
company in her new
apart-m
ent in Santa C
lara.
1968 Capture
The k
itten, w
hite w
ith
black
eartips, w
ill be fed
w
ith Clinicare dietary ani-
mal fo
od at 4
2 cen
ts a can
and Purina dry cat chow
. A
very
differen
t diet fro
m
what M
ary —nn could feed
her cats in China —
scraps from
her own plate and all
the snakes and rats it could catch, and there w
e :e many.
Mary A
nn had to leave her cat in C
hina when she w
as finally allow
ed to go home
last Decem
ber. S
h e h
ad
been captured in 1968 while
sailing w
ith a frien
d o
f tie C
hina coast. Her friend com
-m
itted suicide while still in
captivity. M
ary Ann had been a cat
lover since childhood and it w
as obvio
us y
esterday
, as she greeted her new
-found friend, how
much her cat in
Chin
a must h
ave m
eant to
her. T
he cat w
as &liv
ered
to h
er at San
Fran
cisco In
-tern
ational airp
ort b
y M
r. and M
rs. Dennis D
ayton of T
housand Oaks w
ho breed R
ag Dolls and heard of her
love for cats.
Lives A
lone
Mary A
nn will have tir
to think of a new nam
e for
her cat as she tries to write
a book on her experiences. M
ary Ann prefers to live
alone w
ith h
er cat not b
e-cause she had grow
n so used to life alone in C
hina I ut be-cau
se "I'm alw
ays th
e tyr.
who lived by m
yself." In fact in the tw
o months
she has been back one of her greatest jo
ys h
as been
"to
go o
ut, b
eing w
ith p
eople
again and talking to them,"
even
though,m
ost o
f her
old
friends are "s p
r e a d
around." S
he is learning to hai.dle again the m
echanics of the A
merican
way
of lif S
he
puts th
e soap
in th
e dish
-w
aSher then "shut m
y eyes an
d ru
n aw
ay." N
ext sh
e says, she w
ill tackle the vac-uum
sweeper.
T h
e Am
erica she h
as com
e back to she finds has ch
anged
only
grad
ually
from
the Am
erica she knew.
Bob D
ylan, she was sad to
find, h
as gone in
to sem
i-retirem
ent. L
ong h
air has
grown a little longer.
Speak
ing lip
She says she sees less cen-
sorship here now —
"more
peo
ple are sp
eakin
g u
p o
n
any subject" and the coun-try is "m
oving towards solu-
tions' to problems that "be-
fore were never even spoken
about." W
hat o
f the fu
ture after
her book? She is a graduate
in psychiatry, specialiizng in crim
inology, from the U
ni-v er sit y
of U
tah. S
he h
ad
plan
ned
to g
o in
to so
cial w
ork. B
ut M
ary A
nn h
as had
more than her share of trag-
edy. "I d
on't w
ant to
work
in
a priso
n rig
ht n
ow
," she
says, "I w
ant to make m
y life som
ewhere else."
A L
IVE
GIF
T T
O E
AS
E A
CO
ME
BA
CK
M
ary Ann H
arbert- and her new R
ag Doll kitten