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Animals can seem more pure. Without complication, I mean, animals are selfless. What animals do for us, they do out of instinct.

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Susan Orlean
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 31
Journalist
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
Seem
Animal
Seems
Without
Complication
Mean
Selfless
Instinct
Animals
Pure

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