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Colo. cat, missing 5 years, is found on NYC street

Willow, a 6-year calico cat that went missing

Photo credit: AP | Willow, a 6-year calico cat that went missing from her Colorado home during a renovation 5 years ago, sits in a cage at her temporary home in New York's Animal Care and Control facility. (Sept. 14, 2011)

A calico cat named Willow, who disappeared from a home near the Rocky Mountains five years ago, was found Wednesday on a Manhattan street and will soon be returned to a family in which two of the three kids and one of the two dogs may remember her.

How she got to New York, more than 1,600 miles away, and the kind of life she lived in the city are mysteries.

But thanks to a microchip...

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