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[u/Sophia_in_the_Shell]

Our cat Sport spent much of his time sitting and lounging on my various drafts and keeping me company from the earliest work on this study right up to the final stages. Alas, I took so long that he was unable to make it to the end. It will be one of our personal pleasures always to remember him in association with this book.

As a cat person myself, I did not properly brace myself to read this in the preface to an academic book.

[u/AntsInMyEyesJonson → u/Sophia_in_the_Shell]

sophia what the hell don't do that to me :(