She is beautiful in the way many large women are beautiful. There’s something about the smooth sheen on her plump skin and the defiant stare she gives you that makes you fall in love with her, even when she’s eating.
Something in the Way She Moves
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Author: Cheryl Merrill
Cheryl Merrill’s essays have been published in Fourth Genre, Pilgrimage, Brevity, Seems, South Loop Review, Ghoti, Alaska Quarterly Review, Adventum and Isotope. “Singing Like Yma Sumac” was selected for the Best of Brevity 2005 and Creative Nonfiction #27. It was also included in the anthology Short Takes: Model Essays for Composition, 10th Edition. Another essay, “Trunk,” was chosen for Special Mention in Pushcart 2008. She is currently working on a book about elephants: Larger than Life: Living in the Shadows of Elephants. View All Posts
ABOUT ELEPHANTS 
Beautiful photo Cheryl…love your post!! Barbara
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Thanks. She was a very placid hippo. Normally they can be a bit uneasy out of water when you’re that close to them.
Yeah, but don’t piss her off. We saw an alligator that a hippo had bitten in half!
See my next post in a couple of days!