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This composition was considered for inclusion in the 1999 illustrated book and portfolio, "Metamorfosis" but was ultimately excluded from publication.
In the 1950s, when Bourgeois was living with her husband and children in an apartment on 18th Street in New York City, the family had two cats: Champfleurette and Tyger.
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