Sally
I got a cat though I didn't mean to.
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Sally came to live with me.
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Sally got on my shoulder.
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Sally got a toy.
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Sally stretched on our plywood floor.
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Sally got a new collar.
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Sally was a good cat.
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Sally sat among the roses.
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Sally got her school picture taken.
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Sally spent the day with me at the office.
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Sally enjoyed our yard in Bushwick.
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Sally showed off on Orchid Street.
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Sally looked sassy on my desk.
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Sally did a facepalm.
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Sally on the yard table at 181 Irving Avenue.
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Sally prepared for a nap on my printer.
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Sally stretched in the backyard.
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Sally proved to be a hard worker.
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Sally wasn't too jazzed about New Year's Eve.
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Sally played on a boat.
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Sally relaxed.
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Sally on the porch at Orchid Street.
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Sally lived with me on Orchid Street.
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Sally made friends with a three-legged cat neighbor.
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Sally sat on a sunny desk in Austin, Texas.
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Sally got in the blankets.
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Got a picture of Sally in the covers.
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Sally slept in a sunbeam.
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My house in Austin.
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Sally scowled.
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Sally yawned.
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Sally got under the covers.
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Sally stayed in the air conditioning.
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Clark Street flooded. My neighbor came in the house to wake me up and tell me.
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Sally got in the weeds.
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Sally enjoyed an AC/DC record.
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Sally kept watch at 321 Clark Street.
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I lived at 315 Tricou Street in New Orleans.
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Black racer on the fence.
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Sally stretched on the bed.
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Sally investigated zinnias from our garden.
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Sally caught up on reading.
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Sally slept on the desk, as usual.
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The last good picture of Sally.
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The last picture of Sally.
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Cats on a car on Douglass Street, Lower Ninth Ward.
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Gina and I played Mastermind.
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