“She stumbled back a step. “Carlos was the…?”
“Panther, aye.”
“He’s a cat?” And her boss was a dog. She shook her head. Was her next door neighbor a goldfish?”

— Kerrelyn Sparks

Source: The Vampire and the Virgin

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American writer 1955

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