Lindsey Laughlin: Saying goodbye to Ziggy, the elephant in my room
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One day, during a game of hide-and-seek, my 5-year-old called out with concern from the master bedroom: "Mom!There is a skeleton in your closet!"
"Those are Ziggy's tusks, sweetheart!"I called back, preoccupied with folding laundry.Ziggy was an Indian elephant who spent most of his life chained indoors at the Brookfield Zoo after a near-fatal attack on his keeper in 1941.
Read at Chicago Tribune
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