UNFOXED
Charles Soloman tells a story about an orphaned baby fox that a woman discovered in the country one frigid winter day. She took pity on it, carried it home, bottle-fed it, weaned it on dog food and taught it tricks such as pushing a button with its nose to fill its water bowl. She loved it almost as much as if it were a child. Two years later, she had the most beautiful, full-grown fox in the county. But she soon realized that the time for her to set the fox free to enjoy the fringe benefits of adult fox life had arrived. So, she returned him to the site of their first meeting, and after kissing him good-bye, put him out into the woods. As she drove home, her mind was churning, “Oh, how this hurts,” she thought. “I’ve poured my life into that fox for two years. I hope he can somehow appreciate that without me he’d be dead.” But what…
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