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When the old keeper forgot one latch, the 400-pound silverback reached through the steel

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than most of the keepers had been alive. His habits were so woven into the building that noticing a tear in them felt almost disloyal.

“His wife got him to a neurologist in August,” Miguel said finally. He sat across from me in the small office, twisting a pen cap until the plastic clicked. “Young-onset dementia. They think atypical Alzheimer’s, but continue reading …

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