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“One reason that cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.”  

―Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000), Pulitzer winner and U.S. Poet Laureate, “In the Mecca,” 1968.

 • Editorial Comment: But they watch a lot of daytime TV.

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