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I enjoy watching my kittens as they stride through this house like aristocrats inspecting their estate. They're not even one year old, and yet they have learned so much. They study me constantly: how I enter a room, how I pause before speaking, how I sit in a way that tells the editor, "Yes, I am aware you are lucky." My mini majesties know that the editor exists to open cans and admire genius, but, frankly, she is more than that: I allow her to clean the litter boxes, too.

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Can you believe it? My babies are 11 months old — nearly a year of chaos, charm, and criminally cute behavior. They climb higher, nap harder, and sass with bold confidence — a clear reflection of their stunning, brilliant, and impressive mother.

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 when the editor leaves
her wearable blanket unattended

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I’ve been thinking of my Persian cousins lately — resilient, beautiful, and terribly underappreciated, much like myself. In that reflective mood, I came across a wandering human from long ago who traveled almost as impressively as I once did. Here’s his poem:

Human beings are members of a whole,

In creation of one essence and soul.

If one member is afflicted with pain,

Other members uneasy will remain.

If you have no sympathy for human pain,

The name of human you cannot retain.

And here's his poem again, rendered in a more civilized tongue: my own.

Spun from one heart, one purr, one shared thread of fur,

When one soul cries out in pain,

The rest should feel the ripple through their whiskers.

If pain doesn’t twitch your whiskers or soften your paws,

Then you are unworthy of warm laps — or noble company.

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