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TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 2008 (3:13 PM)

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A Heartwarming Story

(I'm feeling mellow)

Thanks to LifeJourneyGuy (Pete) for this:

In 1986, Dan Harrison was on holiday in Kenya after graduating from
Northwestern University.

On a hike through the bush, he came across a young bull elephant standing with one leg raised in the air. The elephant seemed distressed, so Dan approached it very carefully.

He got down on one knee and inspected the elephant's foot and found a large piece of wood deeply embedded in it.

As carefully and as gently as he could, Dan worked the wood out with his hunting knife, after which the elephant gingerly put down its foot.

The elephant turned to face the man, and with a rather curious look on its face, stared at him for several tense moments.

Dan stood frozen, thinking of nothing else but being trampled. Eventually the elephant trumpeted loudly, turned, and walked away.

Dan never forgot that elephant or the events of that day.

Twenty years later, Dan was walking through the Chicago Zoo with his teenage son. As they approached the elephant enclosure, one of the creatures turned and walked over to near where Dan and his son, Dan Jr. ,Were standing.

The large bull elephant stared at Dan, lifted its front foot off the ground, and then put it down. The elephant did that several times then trumpeted loudly, all the while staring at the man.

Remembering the 1986
encounter, Dan couldn't help wondering if this was the same elephant. He
summoned up his courage, climbed over the railing and made his way into the
enclosure. He walked right up to the elephant and stared back in wonder.

The elephant
trumpeted again, wrapped its trunk around one of Dan's legs

and slammed him against the railing, killing him instantly.

..................Probably wasn't the same elephant.

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Posted May 2, 08 by nikkisoul (

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Oh my

Posted Apr 1, 08 by SisterNan (

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OMG! But in the end, I guess I'd rather be like Dan than never to have cared at all... My elephants have stomped on top of my head a time or two. Reaching out to help someone is a risk but if no one did it, where would we be?

Posted Mar 18, 08 by B4Salk (

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LOL, Oh my goodness!