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Animal welfare issues have always been important to me.

Cathy Guisewite

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Cathy Guisewite
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 5
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Dayton
Ohio
Cathy Lee Guisewite
Welfare
Issues
Animal
Important
Always

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