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CHAPTER 6: STALLIONS & STARDOM
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CHAPTER 7: FELINES & FEELINGS
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CHAPTER 8: CANINES & COMMUNITY
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* Apple would later play percussion using Janet’s bones in a song on her album Fetch the Bolt Cutters.
* I had not yet learned about body positivity and fat-shaming.
* I got to place Cinnamon in the hole in the ground.
* Kiki had a charming and unique habit of hopping up from his perch and hanging on to the side of the cage while defecating, splattering little bits of bird feces everywhere except on the wax paper lining the bottom of his cage.
* The second finch’s name has been lost to the sands of time.
* Also, it should be noted that in the wake of Chuckie’s death, Meri’s parents got her a West Highland white terrier named Jasper, so, in a way, Meri really owes me one.
* Only years later would I realize the big fanned fins of the fish meant the betta was actually a male, but gender is a construct anyway, right?
* Years later I would learn that apparently Farouche died of a heart attack right after crossing the wire, and that the track conditions didn’t have anything to do with her death.
* I mean, of course Argos is too weak and old to stand; in dog years he is, at minimum, 140.
* Fry’s dog in Futurama. See the episode “Jurassic Bark.”
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