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Can a person get carried away with pet names?

Randy Runtsch
Catness
Published in
4 min readMar 14

“Hypocorism: to call by pet names.”

I remember reading an article about pet names years ago. The writer said couples who addressed each other with pet names were childlike. He insisted that his readers call their…

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