His name was Tommy

the white cat who was hit by the pick-up truck

I finally had the nerve to ask my mother to finish telling me about the cat she and another woman had found lying near the median where she walked.

She said that the owner who came out and recognized it as her cat cradled its head and said softly, "Oh, Tommy, Tommy...I'm so sorry..."

*sob*

If that was my baby-cat, I would have wailed to the heavens, then run out into the traffic. But that's just me.