Cats and Dogs

Over the years I have learned this odd and strangely accurate truth about myself:

 I tend to love like a dog. All at once and intensely. Every time I see that thing I love I just go f*cking nuts wanting to touch it and kiss it and tell it how amazing it is. I want to lay at their feet and follow them everywhere they go. Anything they want me to do, I will do. Over and over again. 

But I also tend to fall in love with cats. Literally and figuratively. But we shall go onward with the metaphor: the more attention I give them the more they run away. If I get too close they claw and hiss and try to scare me off. But my dumb puppy dog self keeps coming back. Only once I leave them alone the cat comes over and lays close to me, close but just out of reach. They purr and let me know they're happy to be close, but not together. For a while that makes my doggy heart happy just to make them happy because that is what I live for, to make them happy. 

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