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And I love a cabaret.

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Randomness from a Broadway-obsessed recent college graduate.
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jaubaius

Elephants pass through hotel built upon ancient elephant path, Mfuwe Lodge, Zambia.

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weaselle

The herd matriarch has been named Wonky Tusk for obvious reasons. Elephant use of the path had ceased due to the human buildings, but she courageously resumed the use of the path a little over a decade ago, proving it safe and convincing her herd to follow. Her son was born on the property in 2009 and first visited the lodge at two days old; having grown up experiencing the route he is the most comfortable with the situation, and occasionally steals a trinket from the front desk on his way by. Wonky Tusk is a grandmother now, so it seems likely that this practice of traveling through the lobby to access the fruit trees on the other side will continue as a family tradition, as it is all some of them have known, from infancy through parenthood. They show up once a year, around early November, when the fruit ripens, and visit the trees most days for four to six weeks. The elephants are calm and relaxed, for the most part ignoring the people completely, to the point of taking the occasional nap.

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Ashamed of his monstrous form, the beast concealed himself inside his castle, with a magic mirror as his only window to the outside world. The rose she had offered was truly an enchanted rose, which would bloom until his 21st year. 

If he could learn to love another, and earn her love in return by the time the last petal fell, then the spell would be broken. If not, he would be doomed to remain a beast for all time. As the years passed, he fell into despair and lost all hope. For who could ever learn to love a beast?

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1991)

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