SusanofO
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Lotus: Well, none immediately spring to mind that are an exact parallel happening with a female, but I do think it's a little bit like having OCD - you know those cases where someone "collects" stuff - anything from old newspapers to cats, and then one day the police go to their house and find out they have something like 150 cats living with them, and they have to call the humane society or animal rescue, etc. That can happen to either sex, but actually, the "cat collectors" I've read about are usually women (although that could just be coincidence). In my younger years, I lived in an apartment across the hall from an old woman who had so many stacks of old newspapers, dating back to the 1940's, in her living and bedrooms, she could barely navigate around the floor. It was bizarre, and she refused to throw them out. She had a form of OCD (Obsessive-compulsive disorder). - Susan
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