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“I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.”

Katherine Applegate

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It's hard to put into words. Gorillas are not complainers. We're dreamers, poets, philosophers, nap takers.

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“Pleasure fades, gets old, gets thrown out with last year's fad. Fear, guilt, all that stuff stays fresh. Maybe that's why people get so enraged when someone does something to a kid. Hurt a kid and he hurts forever. Maybe an adult can shake it off. Maybe. But with a kid, you hurt them and it turns them, shapes them,…

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