I blush, I burn, I shudder, while I pen the damnable atrocity.
Cats don__ have names,_ it said.__o?_ said Coraline.__o,_ said the cat. __ow, you people have names. That__ because you don__ know who you are. We know who we are, so we don__ need names.__here was something irritatingly self-centered about the cat, Coraline decided. As if it were, in its opinion, the only thing in any world or place that could possibly be of any importance.Half of her wanted to be very rude to it; the other half of her wanted to be polite and deferential. The polite half won.
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Cats don__ have names,_ it said.__o?_ said Coraline.__o,_ said the cat. __ow, you people have names. That__ because you don__ know who you are. We know who we are, so we don__ need names.__here was something irritatingly self-centered about the cat, Coraline decided. As if it were, in its opinion, the only thing in any world or place that could possibly be of any importance.Half of her wanted to be very rude to it; the other half of her wanted to be polite and deferential. The polite half won.
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