Just finding out from brother James that Alice Cooper plays at the 'House of Bruises' here in New Orleans This Sunday Night! 1998!!!#@@@%***!

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Getting ready to go to a swing dance lesson thingy. Tomorrow is the swing dance. I'm so ready to do something I can't sit still. I'm going to finally do something social.

Yes!

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impressed.

Very cool Mark.

And it seems to work cuz I was playing around with it, just to make sure.

I think it will do nicely.

Thank you.....

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Swimming in political muck.

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Listening to the radio....Bubba the Love Sponge has a gay guy on the phone and he asked him if he's EVER been with a woman...so, the gay guy says "Bubba, the only woman I have been inside of is The Statue of Liberty"..That was funny!
Mike and I (Mike=my boss) went to Tampa yesterday to look at another Bar/restaurant he wants to buy. Nice place. If he does buy it, I'll be transferring from the place I work at now to the new one. I'm really hoping it goes through because I would much rather work in Tampa instead of so close to home.
This may postpone my trip home to NY though Jimbabe...But, think of the Grand Opening party this will be...your perfect excuse to get your ass to Florida and party with me! Just food for thought...

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Thinking about the two models of record players (yes! real turntables!) that I saw at Best Buy the other day---two aisles down from the rabbit ears.

Finding that most of the floor secretly resents my dorm neighbor "Dave". He's the guy with two real close mail friends and that's it, but has that super-charismatic air and has every girl on the floor after him. Everyone is friendly to him. Very cheerful. He has a stereo he likes to play loudly and fill his room with girls... I was asked to out-match him with my obviously superior stereo. There seems to be something about the size of his stereo that causes jealousy. When someone came in and saw mine, the word spread quickly. Weird. I've never turned it past "4" (out of 20 or so). I just like the fullness of the music. Can't I just listen to my music in peace?

Dave's roommate is the asshole I roomed with during orientation. He accused me of jacking off the second day we were there. He said he heard me that first night. I talk in my sleep sometimes, but that? No. The arrogant prick treats everyone like shit.

It's raining today. All day. I like it.

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The first thing I noticed when I woke up this morning was that I was really sick. This huge feeling of nausea that I've never quite felt before. And believe me, I'm no stranger to nausea. It felt more like a nervousness nausea than an alcohol-induced one, but it seemed to be all over my body and even surround me.

Then I noticed it was raining; a squall that had finally blown my way from Georges. So I laid there in bed and listened to it patter and pound on my roof. Then, with my last ounce of strength, I decided not to go to work. I think I may have food poisoning.

I had a roommate once who said that I snored. I think it was because I always slept with the radio on the classical station real low, and I think he heard the hmmmmm of cellos and bass viols through my door. Nobody who's slept with me or in the same room with me ever said I snored.

I think I'm gonna puke.

Performing first-aid on my feet. The Swing Dance was incredible. I've never danced so hard in my life. The two lessons I took were good enough to keep me dancing all night. Hipster Daddy-O and the Hand Grenades was great. I got their cd. My muscles are all exhuasted and I'm going to lay down and grin all night. It was more fun than I've had in a very, very long time. For once I felt confident and cool since moving here.

Sigh.....

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Wishing Ridin a very happy birthday today. I hope that when I turn 43, I am just as free spirited and spunky as Ridin is..Enjoy your day girl.

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looking for the humor ....maybe when I turn 43 my spunk and free-spirit will allow me to have some....yay, only 8 more years.

recovering from having to work on a Saturday.

And maybe on Sunday as well....

But time and a half is a great incentive.

*pouting off in the corner*

Look here Danipoo... FUCK da fucking new bar... get your butt on a plane so we can go to the nudie bars!!!

:-)

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laughing...Look here Jimbabe, jerk off in the corner and you'll feel better!!!!! And besides, a corner wants to see a happy face, not a pouting one :) I'll have my ass there to hit the nudie bars with you soon enough! No matter what, I promised Kim I would take her home to NY to see her Nana for Kim's birthday in January so either way, I'll be there, honey.

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listening to roberta flack on a rainy sunday. the dogs are slumbering in a bed cleo designed for them. two blankets and a pillow. the washing machine is shaking the entire house. cleo is resting after slamming her fingers in a drawer. she has one bandaid around two of her fingers, like a splint. she seems to be enjoying her inability to use those fingers. i slept til almost eleven this morning, then woke up in a panic thinking i had to be somewhere i didn't. now there are people here bringing us our truck that doesn't work. goodbye.

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working. this is the beginning of week 4. i wonder when i will stop counting?

my phone is on but no one knows my number.

i am coming back cause i was talking to someone about web-cams and i thought lovingly of this site.
i am eating from a bowl of coulourful grapes and trying to forget about the headache i am getting (what headache?)
i had always hoped that when i didn't have a job, i would at least have cable!

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thinking....

I just received an email from Christopher, who sends his regards.

And something that he said made me realize that maybe it is time to try and put a stop to what I consider to be rather mean-spirited attacks on another person.

Whether or not this guy (Paul) is a jerk or not, I think the attacks on him have gone on long enough.

And to be honest with you, I'm really tempted to just say fuck it and hand over the address to that page.

And walk away. Really, the whole situation is making me sick.

I'm reading. Or trying to. The room is cold, my hands are icy, my nose is numb, and I'm wondering just how am I going to do all of this work. My brain is being stretching to too many different places at once and none of my neurons know where to run.


I just realized that whenever I write anything here, it is like I'm talking into my tape recorder.

I'm reading. Or trying to. The room is cold, my hands are icy, my nose is numb, and I'm wondering just how am I going to do all of this work. My brain is being stretching to too many different places at once and none of my neurons know where to run.


I just realized that whenever I write anything here, it is like I'm talking into my tape recorder.

Thinks about doing what Danipoo said, but what if there are children lurking around in the corner? YIKES!

If ya wait til January Danibabe, all the nudie bar boy's weewee's will be shrivled up by the cold weather.

LMAO!

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Not liking the thought of a shriveled up winkie..what to do..what to do...hmmm...I GOT IT!!! I'll bring my blow dryer and meet you in the car in 10 minutes Jimbabe....that should liven those winkies right up!!
As far as the children in the corner..I would NOT recommend having them watch a Pee Wee Herman video while your in the corner..
On a brighter note, I went out with my little 23 year old boy toy again tonight..his name is Doug..THE cutest thing I have ever layed my blue eyes upon. Really really intelligent,(which has always been a plus for me) very polite, sweet voice, respectful, super well groomed, a smell to die for and.....and he's totally single and still gets asked for his ID when we go to the bar!! But the best part is, I have alot of fun with him. I can take him anywhere and he's always funny and well liked by everyone. Although he may sound damn near perfect, he does have one flaw...he smokes way to much. I smoke too but not that much. Nothing I cant fix though. Yes Jimbabe, I have pics!!!!!!!

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who's paul? and where's christopher?

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being blinded by science...
adolf hitler never wrote down any of the orders to kill the jewish people, he didn't want to be linked to the holocaust....interesting.

i hate these damn roaches...

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Christopher left Sorabji because of his general disgust over the mob mentality that eveyone (myself included) exhibited towards Oatmeal Boy over his postings.

Christopher does still check in now and then but rarely posts anything.

Paul is a rather unfortunate individual who is being hounded, harrassed, taunted, teased and mocked by a number of people, who then choose to post the results on one of the message boards here (Surfwatch - Anonymous Message Server I think....).

I wish Sorabji still had more people like Christopher -- who had a sense of wisdom along with a sense of humor.

Instead we now have puerile antics that go on far too long and have caused a lot of people far too much pain....

by the way, Oatz is back again it seems.

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Not-for-nuthin', my Pet/but when someone comes to Sorabji & starts posting all sorts of outrageously racist crap/then goes so far as to talk abt burning Blackfolks alive/I HAVE to speak out against that in the strongest terms. My parent are old enough to remember a time in this country when it was not uncommon to find Black men swinging from trees in the South. And if you think that's all just 'ancient history'/I got 2 words for you -- Jasper, TX.

If Christopher thought we were too hard on little Oatboy/perhaps he shd take a minute to consider what it felt like to be living in brown skin & see shit like that posted at my favorite website...
Like the Jewish people say: '' Never Again!" And they do everything in their power to put the world on notice whenever someone poses even a verbal a threat to their existence. (Funny tho' -- Mark didn't go to the trouble of barring Oatboy's ISP from accessing the msg. boards...) If Oat is back/that's cool -- so long as he watches what he says. Becuz I wasn't the only one who was offended.

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laughing my fat ass off at the suggestion that the guy who runs this site is a fucking racist. ha ha haa ha hha



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laugh it up, drama queen
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Good Grief! I wasn't suggestion Mark was/is a racist. But AOL has been locked out of this site for more than 2 mos. becuz of 'offensive' posts by some AOL member ( I never got to read them/so I can't say how offensive). And I can't help but wonder why the same wasn't done to Oatboy back when he was offending everyone.

feeling all lucky that I scored *BIG TIME* on Padre/Braves tickets for Saturday and Sunday. Whooo Hooooo!!
And, as God as my witness...I'm gonna sit on Ken Caminiti's lap and do a little dance.

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Thinking that everyone has the right to post their opinion about anything. Whether they post it here or anywhere else. If wisdom means not being able to take opinions over something that was posted here and then leaving the site, than I'm sure glad I aint got no wisdom. I mean hell, I still come here and I KNOW most of you just love me to death..as if..
I gotta take my cat to the vet again. She aint been herself since we moved here. I took her to the vet last month and he said there was nothing wrong with her. So, I'll try another vet today just to make sure she's ok 'cause I love my kitty.
Every night for the last 3 years, my kitty has always slept on my stomach with her head all nestled in my neck. I love it because it means she loves me too. But, for the last week, she's been sleeping on my feet. Now I KNOW something aint right with her.
So, off to the vet we go.

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narf.

be shallow.

Missing.

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I understand R.C.

I think Christopher was referring to the fact that people couldn't/wouldn't let the Oatz incidents alone, even after he was no longer posting to Sorabji (which I just found out was due to Christopher having had a little 'chat' with Oat and convincing him to stay away).
*hope I'm not revealing any state secrets here Christopher*

Anyhoo, I believe he stated that he found 'wolfpack' mentalities threatening, even when attacking bigoted, racist homophobes. Which is why he chose to remove himself.

So I don't know anymore....is absolute freedom of expression an absolute right anywhere and everywhere?

Shouldn't our host have the right to limit what we say, where we say it, how we say it? After all, it is HIS site, his message boards, and he is putting up the $$$ for this project. We are guests in here and I guess if we don't like the rules, we know where the door is....(by the way, I'm sure Mark is against any and all appearances of censoring the boards - witness the Oatmeal Boy posts you mentioned above - but there is a limit to how far you can push things. We all know you can't yell "Fire" in a crowded theatre for example....or is it you can't yell "Movie" in a crowded firehouse?)

And it is Darren who is the reason for AOLers being blocked from posting to the message boards. He was really just being extremely annoying, obnoxious, a huge pain in the ass, blah blah blah.....

*and Dani - yes, I agree that censorship in any form would not exist in an ideal world but then this isn't really an ideal world, is it? Sometimes you have to say enough is enough. Should we all have to put up with the assholes who spew the god-awfullist racist and bigoted crap in the name of free speech? These people are also usually the first ones to cry censorship when somebody with a shred of common sense calls them on it.

So where does it end? What's next?

Anybody.....?

When people post things for the very purpose of insulting and degrading people, calling them on it won't do any good. Think about it. They know they are being assholes. That's very much their purpose most of the time. They choose to be cruel, and no sort of ranting will change them. Maybe if people would settle down and ignore these people, they wouldn't feel that they are striking a chord. Yes, it is wrong, but yes, they have the right to say these things. They make wonderful sites like this less fun. But when everyone joins in to attack back, it strips 100% of the fun out. In fact, I'm not having fun typing this right now. Most likely, this will be the last you will hear from me on the matter. I remember when I first started coming here. I stopped for a while due to being very busy and yadda yadda... And when I come back... this.

Everyone has the right to be an asshole. It's so sad that people feel the need to exercise that right. Don't be assholes back. People who don't participate in the mud-throwing are alienated quickly. I'm sure nobody, especially our much-loved Mark, appreciates people being alienated from his page.

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I missed it. Whatever you all were speaking about. I apologize. I was in my own world agonizing about small things. The tiny things that I push away every day and then they reach a height that can push me back. They pushed me over. I cried that stupid cry. The one when you don't get your way and you want to hide and sob. Well I curled up and did. And felt as stupid as I sounded.

No one heard. Bjork is keeping me company now.

i can respect all of those opinions. it's nice to have a group of people who aren't afraid to speak their minds on the internet, rather than all of the "are you a boy or a girl? got a picture?" bullshit that you get on irc. we can all agree to disagree. hope alyssa's okay, school is lonely sometimes. by the way, i am getting ready to remove a soapy child from the bath is what i am doing right now. to keep this post proper and all, you know.

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Telling Alyssa to join in more. Then her recorder can take a break :)

Telling Dani not to fret abt her furry one: if you've just moved into new digs/yr cat was probably all abt cuddling becuz the new bedrm. was so unfamiliar. (The thing that smelled most like 'home' was the crook of yr neck/so she felt safest sleeping there.) As long as she's eating well & not doing weird shit like spraying all over the place (which Six is now cured of/thank Godess!)/give her a few more days to get familiar with the place before you blow more $$ on the vet. But I'm glad Six sleeps on the other pillow next to me -- not on top of me. If yours sleeps right on yr stomach every nite/do you have to stay in one position ALL NITE? However do you manage?

And T.B. -- I feel ya & you're probably quite right. But I've never had much success with igging folks who continue to toss off insulting remarks. Somehow I feel it diminishes me to just stand by & take shit off someone repeatedly. Maybe it's just a temperment thing. I'm from NY & when someone fucks with me/I fuck back.
But then/a doctor did tell me once that I had high testosterone levels for a woman....

I'm off in search of our missing Maggie.

Agreeing with the NY statement R.C. made...take no shit from nobody...never pussy out when someone fucks with you...fight back with all you got..
I took my kitty to the vet again yesterday. Nothing is wrong with her. I also thought it was the new house and new surroundings but I've been here almost 5 months now and she aint been right since the move. Maybe the 2 days she spent in the moving truck with my husband and daughter left a little permanent damage. I flew down so I dunno.
I start out sleeping on my back every night with kitty on my tummy all night. Most of the time, thats exactly how I wake up. Sometimes I wake up on my right side and she's just kinda sprawled across my ribs. I sleep on the same couch as I slept on in NY so it should still be familiar. I aint a bedroom person much. I'm glad your cat is cured of her spraying problem. I wasnt being a bitch when I said that I have always heard that once a dirty cat, always a dirty cat. Especially adult cats. Kittens are easily trainable but not adult cats. But, low and behold, I aint always right. Now you have a nice kitty and I'm glad he/she aint giving you any more problems.
I think censoring sucks. you know what they say...if you ignore someone long enough, they'll go away. I'm the add fuel to the fire type personally. I like a good heated discussion.
My Mom called this morning and said that my 15 year old brother from NY is coming here to spend Christmas with me. He'll be here for about 3 weeks and I cant wait to see him. I like going to Tampa airport to pick up people because I leave my house about an hour early and hang out on the Causeway and just look at the water. It's beautiful there. Quiet and peaceful. Makes me feel like I'm home in NY sitting by the river.

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having a Recovery Day.

Recuperating from pie, from Triatoma Protracta, from Major General Unhappiness brought about by Docents, and from some required lamentations.

Reading and catching up on lots of crap. But I still can't get to the boards.

I agree, it's Mark's site. HIS HIS HIS, and HIS alone. I just wish he would be more verbal instead of doing things behind the scenes and keeping everyone in a vaccuum.

Danipoo, darlin, the mere notion of a "blow dryer" around a bunch of gay boys is enough to make me laugh so hard I blow milk out of my nose.

Ridinpookybutttoasterovenwithabrokendoor, Way to go on the baseball ticks!!! Smuggle in your own booze though. Damn shit is too expensive at those games. Remember when a whole family could go to the games for almost nuthin? YIKES! Now the concessions are much more than the tickets.

STOP THE MADNESS!

Oh... and btw.... check out the site I reference below if you live in or have friends and family in Washington, D.C.

Thanks!

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tense and angry.

if the good of humankind does not peek its head soon, i will be forced to yank down the shades of my heart and turn my soul inside out.

the inside out soul is a viper.

or maybe i've already pulled the shades down. inaction is the same as compliance. i'm as bad as the rest.

Forgive me for intruding, but perhaps the whole AOL black out is actually the work of AOL itself? The organization is well-known for limiting member access to certain newgroups on usenet, as well as silencing chat roots, and monitoring messages for content. Who is to say that the content of the message boards did not exceed the limits of AOL's perceived notions of good taste, thereby landing the site on the banned web pages list? This might actually be the reason for all the trouble that has been going on lately.

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I'm not even a part of all this, but what from what I've seen of the messages boards, the good Reverend has a point.

First of all, I don't see why Mark Thomas would block ALL of the AOL just because of this Darrin guy. I think M.A. has a laisez-faire policy about those boards. But what do I know.

Anyway, don't you think that maybe some parent or concerned citizen or whatever got on one of the messages boards with the descriptions of masturbation or sexual peccadillos and just complained, and not because of racist loudmouths?

In my mind this place is really pretty homogeneous, as far as views of life goes. There's almost a Salon mentality. ("mob" goes a little too far for me, but I think you had too much fun for my tastes with Idiot Boy). Maybe Oatmeal boy was serious, but I can see somebody just making all of that up just to shake up this site's complacency.

I think I'm going to get a cat.

decompressing not feeling very homogeneous and wondering about the salon mentality i rarely go to the salon and then only to get stacked out hoping Sheila has not been having too much trouble with the conenoses drinking oj and trying not to think about work for a couple of hours maybe a nap would do it

sorry Rev. but the AOL block is not cuz of AOL itself.

If anyone (other than the aforementioned Darren) has AOL and wants the unblocking thingy that Mark has set up, email me and I'll give it to ya....

*thanks Mark!

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S.D. -- DEF-initely getta cat! They're quiet/but great company. They're clean & you don't have to walk them. And they're hysterical when they get the 3:00am bug-outs & start chasing invisible
creatures all over the room. Or when they try to jump up on something high & miss/land with a very graceless THUD!/ then try to play it off by grooming themselves furiously until you stop laughing at them. Plus they're great to cuddle with. But do keep a water pistol on hand (a small one/not a Super Squirt) just in case yr kitty develops some bad habits that need breaking. And feed yr cat the expensive stuff. It will make a difference in their urinary health & overall longevity. (But stay away from the smelly canned stuff. Mine gets only dry food -- they like the canned stuff/but it makes their poops really smelly.) Last but not least -- use clumpable litter. And keep the box very clean.

As for the lockout/it wasn't AOL that did it. Trust me -- t' was His Markness. But our king hath apparently created a servants' entrance for the AOL step-chil'ren/which PetRoc was kind enuf to e-mail to me. So I'm going now to see if it really works...

wondering if all this public discussion about the "secret code" is defeating the purpose.

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R.C.-

When I say I'm going to get a cat, I mean I'm going to try to adopt a stray that hangs around my backyard.

Somewhere along the line my house became stray cat central. All the homeless felines in the area would gather in my backyard, sleep there, eat there (once I found a squirrel tail and a mass of feathers in the room behind my garage), and breed there. In the begining I liked it. I would wake up to cats crashed on my back porch, prowling around after sunset, and I got used to their rhythms and habits.

Then I started noticing the females were producing litters like every 6 months. The males would hunt down the litters and kill the kittens to bring the females back into heat. The strain of all this was killing the females and they were producing in-bred, utterly feral kittens with wild eyes that were impossible to domesticate.

I called animal control and got the cats taken to the pound.I found a few intrepid people who would take a cat or two. Anyway, my home is still marked and all the strays still gather there.

There is one that's been hanging around (living here, really) that I really feel close to. It's a black cat. She runs away when I come outside, but will turn around and stare back at me. We'll watch each other for a while. If I make a move, she'll run, but I think I'm gaining her trust.

If you got any advice...

S.D., you're a brave soul with a good heart. I adore cats/ but I cdn't take having dozens of them all over my yard/leaving animals parts everywhere! And I thought that biz abt males killing the kittens to bring the female back into estrus was a myth -- but I guess not!

If yr little black friend isn't too feral/I'd say just leave out a bowl of food (& fresh water) for her once a day/at the same time each day. Let her see you put it out/then walk away a distance & see if she comes over to eat. Then just stand there & watch her. (I suppose this shd probably be an after-work excercise. My cat's like me -- stays up til sunrise/ sleeps all day/then gets up & has her first meal @ 3:00 pm.)
I assume the other cats are now gone/ so she won't have to fight for the food.

Then, each day, move a few feet closer while she's eating & talk to her in a soft voice. (Doesn't matter what you say -- it's that soft, high- pitched "Here, kittykins" tone that soothes them.)

If after a wk. or 2/she hasn't let you get close enuf to touch her/ I'd say she's probably too feral & not likely to make a good pet. But that also depends on how motivated you are. I've seen people tame some incredibly wild & hostile strays with lots of affection & patience. Eventually, they became the most lovable, cuddlesome cats you'd ever want to meet.

BUT-- be prepared to fork over some not- -quite-minor $$. As soon as she's willing to let you pet her/get a cat carrier & get her to the vet to be fixed -- Pronto! She'll also need a feline lukemia screening & all her shots [4-in-1/FeLV, FIP/& Rabies]. I dunno what vet care costs in yr area/but I paid $55 for Six's shots + another $22 for ear mite meds (a ripoff/but I didn't know where else to get them) + $55 to have her spayed. But do some homework -- I found out (after paying for shots at the vet) that there's a local vet group that does discounted shots for dogs & cats once a month/in different locations. I cd've gotten all her shots for $44/plus a big discount on Advantage (once- a-month topical flea treatment -- don't go for the new anti-flea injection. Fleas shd NOT be treated w/internal meds.)
And you've gotta buy a litter box, good litter & esp. good quality cat food (Eukanuba, Iam's or Science Diet). So the initial cash outlay will easily be $100+. But on the up side/yr cat will never need braces/or keep you up at nite fretting over whether or not she'll get into a good prep school.

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