If we get kittens,

It will get better. Life improves with more friends, more companionship. It does, I know it. I will sacrifice my pure untarnished freedom for your state of mind, for fur, to making this home happier. And we shall name them after mythological heroes or demigods or medicinal herbs and I will take breaks from the computer to find them and press their soft bodies into my face, and you'll catch me at this, we'll laugh.