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A Hamster’s Story: The making of a novel

4 The Love Of Animals

But most of all Emmie loves Hamlet, her hamster. Emmie is fourteen years old and has loved several hamsters since she was seven: Carnie, Ophelia, Ichilles and now Hamlet. Carnie, the first hamster, was the tragic one. She would rub her nose across his body, sniffing deeply while the hamster waited, amused, by the affair.

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