Being pushed out of shape made me realize that I had a shape to return to, like my toy cat who sat on a drum and whose parts were kept in tension by elastic.

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He was like a cat, if I may put it this way, whom you live with for years but who never allows you to get under his sacred skin.

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Like, I'm just a new cat coming along.

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