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glaring sun, no trees to offer shade.
The bears were confined in metal The sadness grew louder. All around
straitjackets, forced upright with me, the bears were crying. I turned in
nowhere to turn. a circle, my heart racing. They were
I walked up and stood before one of in hell, all screaming for help. My
the bears. He was crying and rocking, knees buckled and I grabbed a
with one paw pushed completely into handrail. That’s when my boyfriend
his mouth. Our eyes locked and we said, “Let’s go, Jenny. There’s nothing
connected. In that moment, I felt his to be done here. You can’t save every
suffering. That’s when he reached for mistreated animal in the world.” I
me, extending his arm beyond his understood what he was saying. But
iron prison. He showed me his paws, something in me irrevocably changed.
blistered from cigarette burns. In fact, I experienced an epiphany, a
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