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One


Not so different from what we're doing here now

Except this is the Reader's Digest version

There are some novels you just can't be objective about.

The café appeared to be nothing special, but as long as some dish that included dead animal flesh was on the menu, she was in.

But clinging occurs everywhere, not just in human relationships

Cat people couldn't be bad people, she figured.  And people who rescued street cats really couldn't be bad people. 

As she walked she lost track of how long she'd been ignoring her surroundings —perhaps a quarter of an hour passed as she lived inside her own head—