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

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That was how these things worked. Illness took from the person first, then handed everyone around him a smaller, useless version of guilt.

Tom Barrett had never been easy to imagine as fragile. When he came to Redwood Mesa in his early thirties, the sanctuary was still half mud, half borrowed money, a converted ranch property tucked into the dry hills continue reading …

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