Jill Robinson: Ending One of the Darkest Trades on Earth
"…I just remember walking around this room in total shock and then backing into a cage and feeling something touch my shoulder and realizing, 'Oh my gosh, you know, I've come too close,' and thinking I was going to be hurt. Then, as I turned around [I saw] what had touched me was the bears paw through the bars of the cage.
She just had her paw there and was holding it out. And I did something ridiculously stupid. I took her paw, because it was there, reaching out and she just squeezed my fingers. That's all she did. She just rhythmically squeezed my fingers. And I just looked into her eyes…
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