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Why do cats sleep so much? Perhaps they've been trusted with some major cosmic task, an essential law of physics - such as: if there are less than five million cats sleeping at any one time the world will stop spinning.

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Kate Atkinson
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 20
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