I'm sure you're right. As I said, I don't even remember having read the book.

Yes, horse-loving. Did you never loved horses and had pony posters on the wall? I don't think I loved them in a romantic sense, though, unless I was being a horse myself. And I was a horse every now and then, as I was a cat and a fish. Bird didn't work out so well as I ended up with a bloody nose.