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Thursday, July 12, 2018

Panda

     This is one of the pandas in the Edinburgh Zoo. We spent a day looking at all of the animals - and they at us - and I felt a special kinship to this panda. It did not take a boatload of psychoanalyzing for me to get in tune with this.  When I was a child, kids just did not have a great many toys. Nothing electronic at that. All of the toys I had fit in a box that was pulled out in the morning or pushed into the closet at evening. I would guess that it was the size of a large laundry basket. I had two stuffed toys, one was a brown bear and the other a panda. I kept the panda for good and loved the brown bear into tatters. There was something about the panda that seemed like he should get special treatment. Meeting this guy in the Edinburgh Zoo made all those feelings come back over a span of 70 years.

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