The propensity for writers to begin sentences with qualifiers and subclauses, coupled with a lack of lexical precision, sometimes leads to some odd propositions:
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| A. J. Braun, The Man With No Name, vol. 1: The Baby Hunters (A. J. Braun, 2013), chapter 1, paragraph 8.
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The kitten referred to was Cat, not, as the construction ‘As a kitten, I […]’ suggests, the speaker. The speaker is a man, the Man With No Name of the title. He was never a kitten.
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