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Jan 19Liked by Andrei Atanasov

Lovely, Andrei. This worked great as a single sentence essay. Snow and Yoshi are awesome names.

My mum is allergic to just about every animal, so dogs or cats were off limits as a kid.

My wife and I have a cat, Clementine, who also seems to be possessed with the occasional bouts of batshit craziness.

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Clementine is a lovely name, my fellow cat dad! What color is she?

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Jan 19Liked by Andrei Atanasov

A very snowy white. She's a lilac birman. 🤩

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That’s amazing! She must be a beaut!

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This is a great story and very creative single sentence! Also, semi-colons are the best!😄

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Couldn’t have done it without them!

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This is awesome possum! Long sentences can be hard to chew and digest, but the way you used your punctuation is effective and palatable. There was an author who wrote in such sentences, but I forgot who? Anyway, an amusing read!

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I’ve seen such meandering sentences in Salman Rushdie and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I have a hunch you’re referring to the former. Could that be it?

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!!! I read Marquez in high school. It must have been him. But I don't remember well.

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I love a great run-on sentence!

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Appreciate it!

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Jan 19Liked by Andrei Atanasov

Wow! Well done. This really worked.

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Thank you, June! I’m glad it did!

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I love this, Andrei.

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Thanks, Bill! That means a lot.

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Great piece! Watch out Jack Kerouac. :)

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Haha, that’s the highest of compliments!

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Faulkner would be proud.

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Oh damn, that’s humbling. Thank you so much for subscribing, Helen! Hopefully (and probably) many more of these types of stories are coming.

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This is wonderful.

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Thanks a bunch, Jenna! So glad you liked it.

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Jan 23Liked by Andrei Atanasov

Had to chuckle over the ninja turtle names 😆

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Jan 21Liked by Andrei Atanasov

Short but very good! I like the idea that your fish is having Margaritas on a beach in the Dominican! 😁 My list of pets is a bit more long, and right now we have a dog called Felix and four cats called Asher, Spook, Iker and Tito. All our past and present pets are very beloved members of the family 🥰

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Wow, you have four cats?! So cool! We’ll probably end up with four or more cats eventually too 😂 and yeah, I remember all my pets fondly, and I’m sad that none of them stuck with us for long :(

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Jan 21Liked by Andrei Atanasov

Me too, they should live forever 🥰

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Jan 21Liked by Andrei Atanasov

I absolutely LOVED this Andrei

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I’m absolutely glad you did!

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That's a long beautiful sentence

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Thank you! Thanks for reading it.

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