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This comprehensive cat care guide from the star of the hit Animal Planet show "My Cat from Hell," Jackson Galaxy, shows us how to eliminate feline behavioral problems by understanding cats' instinctive behavior.

Cat Mojo is the confidence that cats exhibit when they are at ease in their environment and in touch with their natural instincts—to hunt, catch, kill, eat, groom, and sleep. Problems such as litter box avoidance and aggression arise when cats lack this confidence. Jackson Galaxy's number one piece of advice to his clients is to help their cats harness their mojo.
This book is his most comprehensive guide yet to cat behavior and basic cat care, rooted in understanding cats better. From getting kittens off to the right start socially, to taking care of cats in their senior years, and everything in between, this book addresses the head-to-toe physical and emotional needs of cats—whether related to grooming, nutrition, play, or stress-free trips to the vet.

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Jackson Galaxy is a cat behaviorist and the host of Animal Planet's hit show My Cat from Hell. He is the coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Catification: Designing a Happy and Stylish Home for Your Cat (and You!). Jackson is also the author of Cat Daddy: What the World's Most Incorrigible Cat Taught Me About Life, Love, and Coming Clean.

Mikel Maria Delgado is co-owner of Feline Minds, a San Francisco Bay area based cat behavior consulting business. She is currently working on her doctorate in psychology at the University of California at Berkeley, studing animal behavior and human-animal relationships.

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¿Que Es Mojo?

I am in front of a large and very enthusiastic audience in Buenos Aires, while on a tour of Latin America. Over the course of the year, I’ve adjusted to speaking with a translator in places like Malaysia and Indonesia, and I had just been in Bogotá and Mexico City. If you can have simultaneous translation, with the audience wearing headphones, it is a blessing beyond belief, because the audience is with you—the laughing, gasping, and applauding happens (one hopes) just a second or three later than with an English-speaking crowd. In the big scheme of things, it’s a minor inconvenience.

But, when you and your translator switch off (you finish a full thought before he begins), well . . . it’s just a massive headache at best, an absolute kamikaze mission at worst. My translator would stand next to me, a ghost dodging my physical outbursts and stream-of-consciousness rants. The more excited I get, however, the less I remember to heed the presence or the needs of my “ghost.” Some translators, the ones who pride themselves as practitioners of a linguistic art form, allow me to get an entire paragraph out of my mouth before tapping me on the shoulder or giving me that sideways glance, in order to succinctly and with equal fervor catch the audience up.

On this night in Buenos Aires, my translator isn’t that person. She is actually a newscaster who happens to be bilingual. It is not the most graceful dance, that’s for sure. There is much in the way of toe stepping on both of our parts.

Improvisation aside, I always introduce the concept of Cat Mojo early in the show. It’s the linchpin of my entire presentational spiel. That introduction, on this night, is firing on all cylinders; I’m feeling it for sure, as I attempt to occupy the space between cat guy and Pentecostal revivalist. I’m breathlessly demonstrating what a Mojo-fied cat looks like, shamelessly preening, modeling the tail and ear postures, the overall gait of confidence. This all culminates at that moment when I say, “And what do we call this? Man, we call this Cat Mojo. Your cat. Has . . . MOJO.” I allow that statement to reverberate. And it reverberates for entirely too long, going from a drama-filled beat to an awkward silence. I give my translator that sideways glance. Nothing comes out of her mouth, and her eyes betray a slight panic.

At once, she allows her newscasterly character to fall away. She leans in close to me and whispers, “Qué es mojo?” And I respond, in hindsight maybe a bit too loud, “What do you mean, ‘What is mojo?’ You don’t know what mojo means?” We’re having a conversation on this stage, and with every passing reverberant second, I’m losing my grip on this audience. Incredulous, I turn to them with equal measures of validation seeking and creeping dread, and say in full sideshow-barker voice, “Hey, folks, you know what mojo means, right? ‘You’ve got your mojo on,’ ‘You’ve got your mojo workin’.’ How many people here know what the word ‘mojo’ means?”

Cue the crickets. That feeling of creeping dread is now a full-on, flop-sweat-inducing nightmare. For the first time since I was twelve years old, holding a guitar with a broken string at a YMCA talent show, I am about to flame out before a live audience, and I couldn’t think of a single way out of it.

I think back to 2002, when I was sitting at my desk in Boulder, Colorado. The desk consisted of a big chunk of particleboard resting on two sawhorses. I was inspired at the time to turn what I knew into a manifesto of sorts—well, less inspired and more motivated. After a few years as an independent behavior consultant, I found myself trying entirely too hard to boil my knowledge base about all cats down to a relatable info-nugget for my clients, so we could more readily get to the part where they apply that knowledge to getting to know their cats. As is the case today, but much more so back then, cats are dismissed as being inscrutable—so far outside the behavioral and experiential realm of humans that we have no anchor point to hang a relationship on. I was determined to find that hook.

Finding the hook was not about convenience, either. Remember, I had worked for ten years in an animal shelter and was more than a little invested. Far too many cats—millions a year—were (and still are) being killed in these shelters. Time and time again I would witness a question mark–shaped barrier of communication becoming a barbed-wire fence that led to the fracturing of very tender and tenuous relationships. It was the “mystery” of cats’ behavior—their inscrutable nature being fed through the human gumball machine called ego and emerging as a perceived insult—that compelled those frustrated humans to surrender them to the shelter or even turn them loose into the street. I was trying to, at the very least, take the barbed wire off the fence, so that the human and the animal could meet there safely and begin the process of deepening, instead of destroying, their bond.

One hook that I had already started employing with my students and clients was the concept of “the Raw Cat” the idea that the cat in your lap is, in an evolutionary way, millimeters removed from his ancestors (more on this in chapter 1). The Raw Cat represents the innate drives that have influenced cat behavior for the entire time cats have roamed the planet: the need to hunt, the realization that they are in the middle of the food chain, and the need to own and protect their territory.

As such, I came to believe that many, if not most, of the problems that my cat clients were experiencing (with the exception of undiagnosed physical issues), could be boiled down to territorial anxiety. The Raw Cat, content most of the time to stay in a place in the back of your cat’s mind, comes screaming to the fore when confronted with a threat to territorial security. Whether that threat is real or perceived matters little. The fact is, if they feel it, they will almost have to act upon it. It’s not enough to address the symptoms that become hair-pulling annoyances to us. Rather, we must find the opposite of that anxiety and coax that Raw Cat quality out to the point where it dominates and eventually extinguishes the anxiety.

Back to my makeshift desk: It was very late at night, and I was trying to push through that insistent, hallucinogenic moment when sleep would come whether I liked it or not. The risk of going face-first into the keyboard was fifty-fifty at best. I would type, realize I was in zombie mode, go back over it, erase almost everything, and start again.

I was about to pass out, so I got to my feet and started to concentrate on what confidence looks like instead of trying to explain it. Pacing my office, I decided that it was a strut. It was tail up in the backward question mark position, ears relaxed, eyes not dilated, whiskers neutral. No threat in sight, no fight-or-flight mechanism enacted. Neither the weaponry nor radar was needed. No need to take the feline alert system to DEFCON 1 and unlock the box that had the red button in it, because there was a deep, abiding sense that all was well in the world. This strut was not artificial in any way; it was not a product of how cats want the world to perceive them. In other words, it didn’t come from a place of cockiness. It was confidence that could only come from a deep sense of knowing that they own their place in the world. They could go about their day without eyes in the back of their heads, without wondering whether what they owned would be ripped from underneath them. This instinct was so grounded that it was beyond skeletal. It was coming from the vibration of history—a quantum communication—connecting cats to each other through the ages. The hook I was searching for, the thing I wanted humans to relate to, was what it felt like to experience the essence of confident ownership of territory.

I thought that if guardians could recognize and massage this present state of confidence, as simplistic as it may seem, it could help them head off most of the “symptoms” they complain so bitterly about, including cases of aggression and inappropriate litterbox behaviors. As I paced around the room, trying to humanize this strut, this confident swagger, the first vocal manifestation of the physicality came out of my mouth—the gusto-filled refrain from one of my musical heroes, Muddy Waters: “I got my mojo workin’!”

The hook had come, and I was not about to let it slip away. I had to wake myself up. I splashed water on my face. I slapped myself on the back of my neck, something I think a friend of mine taught me in high school to keep me awake during class. I even stepped outside my apartment into the Colorado winter in the dead of night, in nothing but my robe, partly to keep my mojo working and partly just to be aware of the moment, because I was so sure that it would be one I’d want to remember. And I was right; as time has gone on, it’s not an exaggeration to say that almost everything I have built in the name of helping cats revolves around humans understanding Cat Mojo.

Now, we’re back in Buenos Aires, back to the moment of crickets and creeping dread. I’m on that stage, asking the audience a simple question: “How many people here know what the word ‘mojo’ means?” Two, maybe three people—out of five hundred—raise their hands. I had built my career on a word that was falling on not just deaf ears, but on very confused ears.

Because of the language barrier (and because I am completely panicking and without words, English or otherwise), I have no choice but to demonstrate. I am forced back to that night in Boulder, forced to find and deliver that hook again; I need to find something that (a) my audience can relate to, and (b) my translator can translate. And all I can think of is Saturday Night Fever. And that scares me.

I have no time to consider whether this would be a really bad, evening-sinking choice . . . so away I go, painting a picture, faithful to my teenage memories, of the opening frames of the movie:

The Bee Gee’s “Stayin’ Alive” is pounding. The camera captures the sidewalk of Brooklyn, tracking upward from ’70s fabulous-looking shoes. It starts to pan up from hem to belt of flared-out and equally fabulous pants, past the silky, open-to-the-chest shirt, finally rising to reveal John Travolta, a.k.a. Tony Manero. He is carrying a can of paint in one hand and a slice of pizza in the other. And we discover, from shoes to perfect hair, the definition of swagger; Muddy Waters must surely be nodding his head in vigorous affirmation from somewhere in the great blues beyond—Tony has his mojo workin’.

I pause a beat to gauge response. Between the increasingly frenetic tempo and tone of my interpreter, and the steady outbreak of knowing smiles throughout the theater, I know the audience is getting it. So I begin to imitate the Manero strut.

Tony knows things. In the spirit of mojo, he doesn’t know these things as a way of convincing himself of his status. He. Just. Knows. The girls want to be with him, and the guys want to be him. Most important, Tony knows that Tony owns Brooklyn. Or at least this couple of blocks of Brooklyn. And that is understood wordlessly, spoken through the Mojo-fied language of swagger. The Manero strut is not a walk of demonstration, of proving. It is simply the outer manifestation of a grounded inner sense of ownership and belonging. The pizza grease dripping off his chin, the cans of paint that signify his lack of status, even the unresponsiveness of the numerous women he is catcalling along the way—none of it matters.

Doing the Manero strut back and forth across the expansive stage has me winded. With my hands on my knees, I look up and am met with excited murmurs and head nodding, telling me that I just dodged a bullet for sure. Having my feet held to the fire by a language barrier is the best thing that could have happened. That night in Buenos Aires marks a maturation of the concept of Cat Mojo, not only because I can define it in a way that I never thought I had to, but because I now know that I can show anyone, regardless of cultural differences, what mojo is, and that their mojo comes from the exact same place as Cat Mojo.

From my late-night epiphany in Boulder to the night in Buenos Aires seventeen years later, to every live performance, every in-home consultation, every class I’ve taught, and every episode of My Cat from Hell—it all leads us here, to this book: Total Cat Mojo. My primary occupation through these years actually has not been about solving cat issues, but about teaching you how to find, cultivate, and hold on to mojo. Am I referring to you or your cat right now? Well, both, really. Because if you got your mojo workin’, it’s a heck of a lot easier to bring it out of your cat. And if your cat has his mojo workin’, it’s enough to make any human smile with envy . . . even Tony Manero.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ TarcherPerigee; 1st edition (October 31, 2017)
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ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0143131613
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0143131618
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.1 x 0.8 x 9.1 inches

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Jackson Galaxy is the host and executive producer of Animal Planet's long running hit show "My Cat From Hell." Jackson, an animal advocate and cat behavior and wellness consultant, is also a two-time New York Times best-selling author with more than 25 years of experience working with cats and their guardians.

Long before Jackson was known as the “Cat Daddy,” the working musician found he had a unique ability to connect with cats when he took a job at a local animal shelter. During the decade that followed, he worked with thousands of cats, successfully lowering the euthanasia rate at his shelter. His work at the shelter led to a private practice of working with cat guardians and cats in their homes, which helped keep cats out of the shelter in the first place, and became the premise for Animal Planet’s "My Cat From Hell." An immediate hit, the show has been a broadcast staple for nine seasons and has become a global phenomenon, placing Jackson at the forefront of a worldwide obsession with all things feline.

All along, Jackson has stayed true to his roots as a shelter worker, educator, fervent advocate and in-home cat family therapist. At the root of Jackson’s unique approach is a philosophy known as “Cat Mojo,” which teaches cat guardians the skills to help their feline friends build confidence and thrive within their environment, and to better the human/cat relationship at the same time. Jackson has extensively detailed his work and life in his growing collection of authored books. His first, “Cat Daddy,” is a memoir, telling the story of a life-changing relationship with a cat named Benny during his years as a musician, shelter worker and an addict struggling to find a path towards recovery. His subsequent books, “Catify to Satisfy” and “Catification.” Each landed on the New York Times Best-Sellers List.

Jackson has always been committed to bringing better products to the market that live up to his high standards. Jackson Galaxy Solutions, the only line of flower essence remedies designed by a behavior specialist and a veterinarian, has been helping animals live happier and healthier lives since 1995. More recently, his partnership with Petmate has brought a 20-year vision to fruition, providing innovative toys and products for every stage of a cat’s life.

True to his goal of helping to save all animals, Jackson started the Jackson Galaxy Project in 2015 (www.jacksongalaxyproject.com), which seeks to better the lives of at-risk animals by transforming the places they live and helping the people who care for them. Jackson spends much of his time these days devoted to growing the reach and impact of the life-saving JGP programs and partnerships.

Jackson has been featured on 20/20, The Today Show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Late Show with Steven Colbert, The Tonight Show, EXTRA, The New York Times, USA Today, The Washington Post and more

*** The world of Cat Mojo is hitting new heights in 2017. His new Animal Planet series, Cat Vs Dog premiered on November 11th at 10PM ET/PT, and his new book “Total Cat Mojo: The Ultimate Guide to Life with Your Cat” hit shelves on October 31st. For more information please visit www.jacksongalaxy.com, and, like millions of others, stay up-to-date with Jackson on YouTube.com/jacksongalaxy, Facebook.com/jacksongalaxy, Twitter.com/jacksongalacy and Instagram.com/thecatdaddy.***

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Jackson Galaxy Inspired Me To Become a Certified Cat Behaviorist

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I am a certified cat behaviorist through the IAABC and a registered veterinary technician. I am one of only two or three certified cat behaviorists in my state. There is a real need for cat behaviorists to help people out with understanding their felines.

As Jackson writes about in this book, cats thrive on having an environment that brings out their mojo. You want to bring their surroundings to life. A cat's life should include things like cat towers and cat shelving units, play therapy, and novel stimuli such as cat grass and catnip plants to keep them entertained and happy.

In addition to doing private behavior consults - I also do volunteer behavior consultations for a cat rescue called Tenth Life where I still continually learn about cats and their behaviors. There is always more that can be learned the cats that share our home. Even I learned so much from Jackson's book.

And that is the thing - even as a cat behaviorist and multi-cat owners - I am still reading every book and watching every video because learning is a life long commitment for me. I owe it to the cats I work with and the owners that devote everything that they have toward solving behavior problems and giving them the best life possible. Because every cat is a unique individual and some behaviors that they display require creative and innovative modification strategies. Not every behavior fits the book as they say.

I have worked with hundreds of cats and owners with litter box issues, aggression, separation anxiety, and the list goes on. I was excited to read Total Cat Mojo since Jackson Galaxy is my favorite author. I read it in only two days. I met him one year ago and he really understands cat behavior. I have watched every episode of My Cat From Hell in addition to reading all of his books and articles.

Being able to see him go through a case from beginning to end has helped me tremendously in being able to talk to people about behavior problems. I have aspergers and while I completely understand cats - talking to people was a difficulty for me at first. I have excellent written skills but Jackson Galaxy really help me with the consult side of it from his videos and book series.

I was actually able to receive a copy of this book 2 days early. My background is much like that of Jackson Galaxy. I started in the animal shelter environment and was helping cats who had behavior problems and helping people to better understand their cat. Being able to understands cats is not a magic trick and we are not a whisperer like Jackson points out - it is about looking at the world from your cat's perspective and understanding the world from this perspective. Once your are looking at the world on the floor like your cat would then you can begin to modify the world and offer your cat what he needs.

As a cat behaviorist - I did retention and behavior consults directly through various animal shelters to help curb cat returns. There was not many people who fully understood them or their needs around this time. Many people still recommended declawing as a catch all for cats who clawed their couches and devocalizing for cats who excessively meowed. It was my job to discourage such inhumane practices and teach positive training. I turned the perspective of the community around and worked toward getting declawing banned in several areas. There still isn't many people who have knowledge of common cat behavior issues and modification strategies which is reinforced everyday by what I see. I am a non-judgmental person and I like to show that I am because as a cat behaviorist - I know that it can be tough to adopt a cat like perspective at first and then figuring out what to do.

I was the cat room supervisor at one big animal shelter for 5 years where I showed people that nearly every cat could be saved by behavior modification. I turned hissing cats into lap warmers and feral kittens into adoptable house cats. Many of the strategies, techniques, and tips that I use today are in this book. Each protocol and strategy are clearly and uniquely defined.

Like Jackson - there was that one cat who inspired me to become a cat behaviorist. There was a cat that bit everyone at the shelter and made them bleed. The cat even sent one guy to the emergency room. The cat was turned in by the police because the cat had backed the original owner into a corner and was hissing. The cat was about to be euthanized.

I worked with the cat for 3 months with a plethora of techniques such as play therapy and enriching the environment. Today that cat is one of my best buddies who serves as a constant reminder for the reason I got involved in the cat behavior world.

I learned much of my cat behavior skills from experience and from watching Jackson Galaxy. This book is one of the most complete and definitive guides to understanding cats and giving them what they need that I have ever read.

The images and the graphics that demonstrate each concept is absolutely stunning. As I have learned - many owners need to see a picture to understand a concept fully which is the basis for including such comprehensive pictures. It is a great addition to my bookshelf of Pam Johnson books such as Think Like A Cat.

There is no book that I recommend more than Total Cat Mojo from Jackson Galaxy. I do recommend that people supplement their reading with other books such as Think Like A Cat who is another favorite cat behaviorist. I got my skills from reading every cat behavior book I could get my hands on and watching every video I could. That is what I recommend for understand your cat and becoming a cat behaviorist for those who are interested in doing so.

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Mulvany

A very well written book.

Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2024

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This book is chock full of interesting and valuable information. As a new kitten owner I need all the help I can get and this is such a great resource. I really appreciated the history, and the origin and comprehensive look at cats and how to understand why they do what they do.

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Joan L

Good info

Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2024

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Good information. Read a library copy first, then bought as a gift for my daughter who had just adopted a rescue kitten.

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Kaja Trees

Comprehensive how-to for cat guardians

Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2019

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I have been a "cat person", but there was so much to learn from this book. The beginning gives a nice introduction to how cats see the world and what they consider important; then Jackson describes how to make life the best possible one for cats; and then how to solve the issues. Up to a point I was missing specific step-by-step instructions or summaries, but that turned better as the book progressed.

I'm sorry that I read this book now that I don't have cats any more. There were solutions to issues that I was having with them, and now finally I understand the reasons and what I could have done to solve these. The solutions are sometimes much more extreme than I would have liked as cat guardian, but it is possible that these would have been the only ways to completely solve them, and caring about them, I would have. It would have been difficult for me to give up the practice of not letting them into my bedroom, or to give up kibble, or have consistent play sessions... Each different reasons...

It is quite shocking that cats are so misunderstood, but still manage to be so widely living with humans. That they need so much more thought put into ther environment and interactions with them than they receive even from people considering themselves"cat people". It is so sad that people often take cats to their home to be a moving ornament, not a family member... Such a contrast with dogs...

I have read quite a few books about dogs lately, but I have not read a similar book about dogs yet - so if anyone has recommendations, I would appreciate.

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Jackson has helped people understand their cats better in an easy to follow guideline

Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2024

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Quick read, that gets to the point and is going to help pets stay in their home
Too many people give up on pets and don't try to understand why they do the things they do

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Muscled Wolf

figure out your cat and make their life happiet

Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2024

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Jackson Galaxy has a strong utub channel and found him there. the book has a lot.of.gpod information and tips to help you figure out and make your cats life a better one.

Highly recommended if you have a cat!

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Angeal

Very insightful book!

Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2024

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This book helped me understand my cats better.

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Mike K

Super Resource!

Reviewed in Canada on June 23, 2023

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Really helped me to get ready to bring my first kitten home. Had many dogs in my life now I believe a cat will better suit my life. Book will be my go for guidance on this journey.
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Mike

kat

Jackson galaxy

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 11, 2024

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Love this book so much. Has so much useful information, we have two cats so it has really helped to understand them and help them too.

Isabell H.

be kind and cat competent

Reviewed in Germany on July 30, 2023

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If you wish to deeply love and truly know your cat, this book is for you. It goes deep and is practical at the same time. I learned a lot and recommend it happily.

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PatyT

De gran ayuda para mi y para mi gatita

Reviewed in Mexico on December 21, 2018

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Excelente guía para entender a tu gato, está llena de consejos para que tengas una mejor relación con tu mascota.
Actualización: estoy terminando el libro, además de ser de una muy fácil lectura, no puedo creer toda la maravillosa información que me está dejando. En serio no te lo pierdas por que hay mil detalles en que uno la riega por no hablar lenguaje gatuno.

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Reviewed in India on July 29, 2019

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Amzing and beautiful book. Loved the 'taking a towel from home to wherever you go because it reminds you of you home' part. So True!

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