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Complete PICLE corpus of essays by Polish advanced EFL students (330,000)

The point is that we are losing contact with nature. Children think that milk comes from factories and they believe a cat can be brought back to life by resetting it, plastic egg or the real thing. The games you play with your virtual pet never bring fun although they are meant to be 'educating' as it must be the animal who wins, not you. You cannot lift a limp ear and whisper your problems into it as you can with a spaniel, you cannot touch soft fur, and you will never know how it is to run in the middle of the night in search of a veterinarian because your goldfish looks as if it couldn't breathe.