Have you noticed how every cat that gets lost is undergoing medical treatment? Feline X, microchipped and neutered is desperately sought and the situation is made worse by Feline X’s need to take its medicine — the papers taped to the lamppost announce. And yet those posters never fail to move me, even if I know very well that the medical treatment plot is just that, a mediocre plot line — naive emotional blackmail deployed by a desperate writer. Yes, like the walking literary cliché I am, cats are one of the few things I like unironically. But also, I have a bit of a thing for loss.
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