Published by The Palm Beach Post
No doubt Jupiter Medical Center's CAT scan team has seen an array of patients cross the hospital's threshold, but in mid-May, they braced to scan perhaps their most unusual subject. Their patient had gut problems, was on an IV and being treated with antibiotics. He was also not human. He was an endangered loggerhead sea turtle named Dwight.
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One day I read a phrase on my passport that struck me irrevocably: "We send thanks to all Animal life in the world. They have many things to teach us as people. We are glad they are still here and may it always be so.” Could you imagine a time when people might look up and tell their children, “Once upon a time, you could see stars…"?
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As I sat at a dinner table on the 23rd floor of a five-star hotel in Moscow listening to my new, globetrotting companions exchange adventure stories, I thought of how abruptly different this was from the life I had been living just 24 hours before. Then, this 27-year-old Floridian had spent 12 months in a soul-crushing cubicle and could say she’d left the country only once in the previous 10 years. Now I was 5,700 miles away from home…
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