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a family made not from genes, not from blood, but from love.
“Oh, but you do feel them,” he said gently. “What you are feeling when you miss them is not their absence. It’s their presence.”
This is the gift great souls leave us when they die. They enlarge our hearts. They leave us a greater capacity for love.
Only during my lifetime had scientists begun to acknowledge that chimpanzees, humankind’s closest relatives, are conscious beings.
A far worse mistake than misreading an animal’s emotions is to assume the animal hasn’t any emotions at all.
You never know, even when life looks hopeless, what might happen next. It could be that something wonderful is right around the corner.
