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One of Eunice’s errands this day was to bring a Persian cat named Silver to a veterinarian, for treatment of a slight abscess.  Eunice and Tommy owned six Persians, which they bred and exhibited.  Tommy and Edward Williams had built a “cat room” in one bay of Tommy’s two-car garage.

The cats also had the run of the house.  When Eunice played the piano in the front room they would curl up on the furniture to listen to the music.  Eunice and Tommy doted on the animals.  Often the couple would leave a television playing during the day to entertain them.

After eight years of marriage, the couple were still childless.  Eunice was under treatment by a fertility specialist in Orlando.  She charted their intercourse on neat graphs that she kept beside their bed.  The graphs would show that they had regular relations until about two weeks before Christmas, after which the notations ceased.