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    Apr 01, 2019 6 minutes

    Cat Chemistry

    The first thing I’m going to say in this letter is not “I love your mag!” It’s . . . um . . . OK, I really love your mag! I am a human inventor that made a potion to turn myself into a cat, but I messed it up and now I can turn into a cat and back again whenever I like! (That’s called serendipity.) Unfortunately, I cannot tell you how to make the potion because

    a) I don’t remember,

    b) it’s supposed to be a secret,

    c) it might be dangerous, and

    d) you wouldn’t be able to make it anyway, because it uses rare magical ingredients and is a spin-off of the Polyjuice potion.

    As a human believer and a cat feeling the effects of global warming, my favorite issue was Climate Reality [February 2017]. A few years ago, I watched a video on global warming and now desperately try to help the planet in every way

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