So have a bath or stroke the cat.
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The following day, make it proactive: over each hour plan to go for a walk or to stroke the cat: tiny things that traditionally make you feel better.
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Stroke the cat through the fence if you can.
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In recent days he caught her on the stairs stroking the cats.
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I have been absent-mindedly stroking the cat with the éclair.
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