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Better to be the cat gazing coolly down from a high wall, its expression inscrutable. The cat that shunned petting, that needed no one. Why couldn't she be that cat?

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Laini Taylor
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: December 11
Author
Novelist
Writer
Chico
California
Shunned
High
Inscrutable
Better
Gazing
Cat
Couldn
Wall
Petting
Expression
Coolly
Needed

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