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- Sarah Johnson
- Collection management librarian, readers' advisor, avid historical fiction reader, NBCC member. Book review editor for the Historical Novels Review and Booklist reviewer. Recipient of ALA's Louis Shores Award for book reviewing (2012). Blogging since 2006.
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Aw, so cute!
ReplyDeleteMy kitty Charlotte (deceased a few years ago after a long and rather neurotic life) had similar coloring.