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Melissa arrived in St. Malo this morning at around six. The streets were
quiet, just a few babies practicing crying on the curbs with their tutor Spot. According
to French law, babies younger than three years old crying in public spaces should require
animal guardians.
She walked to the dog and asked, " Do you know where I can get some Kleenex? I need
for my running nose. "
" There is a Paper Queen sells all kinds of paper. It's on King Edward Street. But
remember they do their cleaning in the morning. Reopens at two. ", said Spot.
" I can't wait that long", replied Melissa, wiping her nose with her right
sleeve.
" Guess I will have to do it this way..", wiping with her left sleeve.
" Where do you come from? ", Spot asked.
" Paris. Left to find a quiet spot for my feet. Paris is way too big and crowded for
them and they got annoyed easily."
" Then you will like St. Malo. Here only babies have privilege of staying on the
streets in the day so they can practice crying along with their animal guardians. The rest
of the residents go out at night from nine to twelve. "
" Perfect! ", said Melissa.
It took ten more minutes for the babies to finish. Spot then took them home one by one.
The street became extremely quiet; It𠏋 only seven in the morning. Melissa did get a nice
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在法國，人際關係是相當重要的，良好的人際關係就像葡萄酒對法人般地不可缺少。新一代的年青人因為有了電腦，慢慢地失去面對面肢體上的交際技巧。於是有人開始販賣訓練過的寵物，讓人們帶著它們出門以增進面對面時交談的話題。這些寵物中特別是貓最受歡迎。
貓吃的少，愛乾淨，而且在飼養上頗經濟，是受大眾歡迎的原因之一。這些受訓過後的貓可以做出許多誘人說話的動作，因此每年在法國的波豆有一個叫做‘社交貓大賞’的競賽，全法國的社交貓齊聚一堂。能夠誘得評審們講話最多的貓就是冠軍。冠軍貓由主辦單位頒發學位，它的主人也因此榮譽地躋身當地社交俱樂部的一員。
We once took up ballroom dancing to extend our social life. Recently with the decline
of the dancing populations, people have started thinking of other ways to socialize. Pets
have thus become a mean to increase interactions among people. You find there are social
cats, social pigs, social dogs, even social reptiles. They create more interactions and
common ground between people and will play an important roll in the information intensive
era of the 21st Century.
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