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She looked at me with clear, brown eyes as she said, “Now, we open a zoo.”
I hadn’t expected her to be serious.
Honestly, I thought she was just joking.
But there she was, the next night, showing me what she wanted out of said zoo.
Six months later, we broke ground on it.
A year later, we opened it.
Two years later, that zoo was our baby.
We had four elephants, an elderly chimpanzee, along with three lions—one male and two females—and a toothless tiger that had been rescued from a circus. Then there were all the zebras, llamas, and alpacas that’d been rescued from a nature reserve.
The cows, pigs, goats, and chickens were all just impulse buys—or gifts—that Matilda had been unable to say no to.
And those are just the outside ones.
The inside? We now had four hairless cats. All of which—except Hairy, that was—Matilda had gotten from patients that no longer wanted them, or couldn’t take care of them.
Our life wasn’t ideal.
It wasn’t pretty.
But it was ours.
And I couldn’t be any fuckin’ happier.
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