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Word Search: What’s Your Baggage?

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Dec 8, 2022
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Sally lives in the UK. Her work has been featured in a Korean magazine about queer people and their pets and a book about haunted prisons. She never intended for any of this to happen.

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  • Sophia
    December 8, 2022 at 5:07 am

    I kept trying to highlight dogs and cats, but they weren’t on the list! Given the theme and the fact that my ex and I broke up due to, among other things, the fundamental mismatch between a dog person and a cat person, this seems poetically fitting…intentional, Sally?

    I am the dog person. Her cats peed all over the place!

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    • hihello
      December 8, 2022 at 5:22 am

      i see “dogs” front and center though, which i think means you won ;)

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      • Sally
        December 8, 2022 at 5:29 am

        Incredibly, my wife suggested that instead of “rescue pets” I should have had rescue dogs, rescue cats, rescue ponies etc. etc.

        So I think that errant “dogs” and “cats” is maybe the puzzle agreeing with her?

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      • Sophia
        December 8, 2022 at 5:55 am

        I definitely found the word “dogs” before “cats”!

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      • SAM
        December 8, 2022 at 9:25 am

        I found “cats” and “purr”… Love is not a lie!

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  • hihello
    December 8, 2022 at 5:21 am

    sally i appreciate that this one was manageable both in terms of word-finding and emotional damage. i will stand here and take the long distance slander like the gay stereotype i am.

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    • Sally
      December 8, 2022 at 5:32 am

      I like to think of puzzles as a kind of therapy, so it’s important they both calm you but also call you out

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  • Pallas
    December 8, 2022 at 6:33 am

    I feel very called out by all the nonmonogamous baggage and also did you know that this puzzle doesn’t just contain “cats” and “dogs” but also… “purr”!!!???!!! 🥺

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    • Sally
      December 8, 2022 at 7:29 am

      The puzzle is definitely trolling all of us

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  • Kate
    December 8, 2022 at 11:04 am

    the pain of finding Gal without a Pal when that is all you are looking for

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  • Jaye
    December 8, 2022 at 10:06 pm

    If anyone else is having trouble on desktop (this is the first time I have!) resize your browser to vertical.

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