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A Gift from an Old Man

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A Gift from an Old Man

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Jim Latham
Sep 1, 2021
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“Hodi!” The old man called out the Swahili greeting.

“Karibu.” I put aside a letter home and welcomed him to my tent. “How are you, Oketch?”

“My head is very bad.”

The ibuprofen I’d brought to the chimpanzee preserve had become popular. I gave him two tablets.

“In our culture,” Oketch said, “we believe if we thank someone fo…

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