Encountering a perfume sample in a magazine can send my lungs into a near-fatal spasm, but I don’t mind pet hair. As I was waiting for my eyes to stop watering, I wondered if this was a one-time thing or if my pets would forever after cause me to cough up a lung every time I got near them. I didn’t give the faux pooches another thought until the morning my lungs reacted violently to cat hair. There’s no calmer pet than one that’s been stuffed with 100 percent polyester fiberfill.

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