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Emily Sanders Hopkins
Dec 17, 2024
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Our unrelated yet bonded kittens, Simone and Pierre, whose names I have trouble remembering. I think of them more as Thomas and Velvet. Or “The Boy” and the “The Black One.” Sometimes they roll around gently biting and grooming each other, and Marshall says, “They’re basically Frenching.”

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