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Human beings are drawn to cats because they are all we are not — self-contained, elegant in everything they do, relaxed, assured, glad of company, yet still possessing secret lives.

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Pam Brown
Age: 77
Born: 1948
Born: January 1
Performing Artist
Poet
Writer
Seymour
Victoria
Australia
Self
Company
Elegant
Secret
Assured
Lives
Relaxed
Stills
Cats
Still
Drawn
Human
Cat
Everything
Glad
Possessing
Humans
Beings
Contained

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