It felt good to be needed': how getting a cat prepared me for motherhood
Briefly

First of all, I must say this: a cat is not a baby.It is true that I fed her with a bottle, like a baby.And it is true that she thinks I am her mother, that when she kneads the blanket that covers me, she is mimicking the milk-treading of a feeding kitten.It is also true that, when everyone else I knew seemed to be pregnant and I was not, I used to fantasize about responding to their baby photos with pictures of Mackerel (my cat is called Mackerel, because I think it is funny to name a cat after a fish), just to see what people said.
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