There's more than one way to skin a cat, my father used to say; it bot…

Margaret Atwood
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There's more than one way to skin a cat, my father used to say; it bothered me, I didn't see why they would want to skin a cat even one way. ✨ Margaret Atwood (2012). Surfacing, p.144, Simon and Schuster
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