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Concerns herein: poetry and monkeys

Sunday, May 10, 2009

Happy Mother's Day

This is pretty much the best Mother's Day story ever.


The leopard and baby baboon story is touching and fascinating, but a great Mother's Day story maybe doesn't involve so much death.


Posted by D'Anne Witkowski at 11:59 AM
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I'm a poet and a graduate of the University of Michigan's MFA program. In 1998, a monkey touched me and changed my life. In 2009 a bear did the same. And now you know.
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