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

ape building. “I don’t know another way to get through the day.”

“That’s not the same as getting through it.”

He did not answer. Maggie pulled back, wiped under one eye with the heel of her hand, and gave him a look that must have taken her years to inherit from Linda.

“You taught all of us to take care of what we love,” she said. “You don’t get to be continue reading …