“Life is totally unfair,” he told his pet, who was rubbing up against his leg and purring. “You are nothing but a worthless cat, whose best day is taken up by twenty-three and a half hours of naps, while I am richer than rich and want to do things you can’t even imagine. But you get to have nine lives, and I get only one.”
The 9 Lives of Alexander Baddenfield
John Bemelmans Marciano
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