North & South

Pet Talk

I want to be straight with you – the following is a love letter to my cat. You may be thinking, “She’s not going to fill an entire column with platitudes about her pet, is she?” I absolutely am, and I’m not sorry. It’s time to write about the creature I love most: the hefty, purring cushion that

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