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Snare: A Short Story
I was caught on the snare and was screaming for Sophie to come and get me. I heard someone running towards my way and I was hoping it would be her, so I kept yelling to tell her where exactly I was. And I look over to my left and there she was staring at me and having very deep breaths. I was moving back and forth still trying to get loose. She had my name while I was looking and then another Bonobo ran away from out a bush and with another young one her back. I was still very aggravated at the time and I grabbed at the knot in the snare, but I didn’t work. At that moment she said, “Oh my Otto, I’ll get you down.” She started climbing the tree trying to get me down because she couldn’t reach me from the ground, I was too high up. She kept slipping
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