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

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and wrote something. I did not read it then. I wish I had.

His final workday came on October 28, a Friday morning softened by fog. The public paths were wet, and the redwoods along the entrance road looked black against the pale sky. Tom arrived at 5:52 a.m. wearing his old canvas vest, the one Linda had patched twice and threatened to throw away for continue reading …

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