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Your cat's tongue wasn't made for
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affection. It was made to clean blood.
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That roughness, it's a weapon evolved
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into a ritual. Each tiny spine, a barb
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called a papia, points backward,
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designed to strip flesh, not give
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comfort. In the wild, those spines pull
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meat from bone and draw heat from
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wounds. Domestication didn't change
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that. It just softened the story. They
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clean to cool their bodies, hide their
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scent, and recover from the hunt, not to
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kiss you. When they lick you, they're
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not showing affection. They're
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reclaiming you. They treat you as part
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of their body, not their heart. They
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love by maintaining what's theirs, not
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by understanding what you are. Evolution
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made their tongue sharp so they could
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survive alone. And somehow we took that
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as a sign of love. So next time they
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lick you, remember it's not a kiss, it's
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a claim. Tag someone whose cat shows
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love a little too rough. Follow Inside
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Your Mind, where psychology explains why
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instinct still runs the
