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Superstition, she said. Soup with a bonobo finger in it is supposed to make a pregnant woman give birth to a strong baby. Putting another finger in the bathwater keeps the baby strong. "I hope the stupid polio", I said, and surprised myself by even sort of meaning it. I kissed the top of the bonobo's head. I imagined him in his crate, crying against the bars, someone lifting him out only to chop off a finger. Plunging him back into the crate, then pulling him out a few days later to take another.. .Eliot Schrefer
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Life's the picture. But all good photographers know you gotta have the right lens.Lamar Giles
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He's extremely dehydrated and we'll need to get fluids into him as soon as possible if he's to have a hope of survivingEliot Schrefer