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Lighten Up: Existential French Cat
Greg used to be into the existentialists quite a bit. Sartre and Camus would love this cat. (Thanks to Rachel Held Evans for the heads-up.)
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Existentialism, Humor, Lighten Up, Philosophy
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