Top of my ambitions for this year: be less nice. Do fewer good turns. Be less amenable and most of all a lot less kind to animals. While this sounds a bit grim, you have to consider that I am starting from a very high base. If I go out of my way to be heartless every time a stray needs rescuing, I reckon the most I can hope for is that I won’t end up with every single one of them in my house.
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