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LWolf

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26. Me, too.

Fri Jul 11, 2014, 03:49 PM

Jul 2014

To be human, though, requires a constant balance between pack behavior and independence.

Cats do most of those others, plus constantly model, er...independence.

Says the Lone Wolf.

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