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David Sedaris: ‘I didn’t go to the pyramids – instead, I bought cans of tuna, because you wouldn’t believe how cheap it is there to feed cats.’ Photograph: Anne Fishbein

You just got back from Egypt. What was that like?

There are 6 million cats in Egypt that are kept as pets, and there are 100 million that live on the streets. And they’re all missing an eye, or a part of a paw, or they’re filthy. So I didn’t go to the pyramids – instead, I bought cans of tuna, because you wouldn’t believe how cheap it is there to feed cats.