The Elusive Lion, Part II

YOU CHOSE A (The pre-med track)
You are about to graduate with a BS in biology. You have been accepted into Tuskegee University's esteemed veterinary program, but your heart rebels. You still want to be a lion tamer. Do you A) go to vet school, B) Get an entry-level job at the local zoo, or C) take time off, maybe travel a bit

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YOU CHOSE B (Drama major)
You are about to graduate, and have become a promising makeup artist and stage manager. You are known for your abilities to soothe even the most tempermental and neurotic of your fellow students. You have a chance to further your study at Syracuse University in New York, but you sometimes wake up in a cold sweat with foggy dream lions still padding through your mind. One day, the circus comes to town, and you finagle a backstage pass through your department. On your way to the makeup trailer, you see an apprentice lion tamer in shiney black boots and a shiney red shirt. In the dust-filtered light of backstage, he/she walks with a faint limp and his/her heavily lined eyes pierce you smokily. Your head swims and you are besotted.
The head makeup artist is a sassy man named George. He is desperately short-handed and offers you a job. Do you A) go to Syracuse, B) Accept George's job offer, even though it doesn't pay all that well, and run away with the circus, or C) try for an internship at the local equity theater

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YOU CHOSE C (Research lion taming)
After two years of toiling for a pittance at the local zoo and writing fruitless letters to self-professed lion tamers, you simply go to the circus and snoop around in back until you spot the lion tamer. He is old and cantankerous, but he likes the looks of your calloused hands. "You've got heart, kid," he says, and takes you on as his apprentice. Two years after that, you are still cleaning animal cages for a pittance, but now you are learning the basics of lion taming, and you get to wear a shiney shirt. One night after the show, you go to feed the tigers and find that Cleo, the youngest, is sick from having swallowed a tube of greasepaint. In her pain and confusion, she slaps you with her massive paw, sending you reeling into a pile of hay with blood gushing from your wounded thigh. You and Cleo both recover, but the experience haunts you. One night backstage, you exchange glances with a kid your age. He/she is wide-eyed and has college written all over him/her. You go to the room you share with Frances, the trapeze artist, and wash off your makeup. You look at your face in the mirror, framed between Frances' drying tights and a picture of your mother, and wonder if you might have been better off staying in school. Do you A) Hang up your shiney shirt, go back home and apply to schools, B) Decide to step up your felinology game and take correspondance courses in veterinary science, or C) Stay with the circus, but ask your boss to let you work as a dresser while you get your head together.

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