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

than adults hoped they would.

After the session, Maggie met Tom in the service hallway. I was close enough to hear only because no one had remembered to close the office door. She hugged him hard, and he patted her back in the same easy rhythm he used with Winston.

“You don’t have to be brave every second,” she said.

Tom looked over her shoulder at the continue reading …