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Tina, The Elephant, Central Park Zoo (early 1980s)
Joni said Tina was so unpleasant that when they were renovating the Central Park Zoo into a livable place for animals no other zoo would take her.
She lived in a small enclosure which had an outside back yard you had to climb up a steep hill of stairs to see down into. From a distance, it was looked like home and she looked like she lived happily in it.
Now, knowing more about the hearts and souls of animals, especially pachyderms, I realized she must have been devastated to be so far from where she belonged.
My sister and me at the Central Park Zoo (early 1960s)
Perhaps, from a distance, our lives looked good to someone else as well.
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