YOU CHOSE A (Go back home)
You have returned to your hometown, gone to college and are about to graduate with a BS in biology. At school, your story and your limp have given you great romantic cachet among your peers. You have been accepted into Tuskegee University's esteemed veterinary program, but you have mixed feelings about it. You have become genuinely invested in your studies, but are frustrated by the lack of hands-on experience with animals. You often wish you could things over again, knowing what you know now.
One day your old roommate, Frances, calls you and says that there is a new lioness in the circus. The beast was wounded somehow and is troubled and restive. The old tamer is unsure of how to deal with her. Frances fears for the fate of the lion and, knowing that you are studying to become a vet, thought that you might be interested in her case. Do you
A) Go to Tuskegee as planned
B) Join the troupe once more, for the sake of the lioness
C) Take a year off while you have the chance, maybe travel a bit
GO!
YOU CHOSE B (Work harder to improve as a tamer)
You face your demons and apply yourself. The old man is proud of you. To your surprise, the fresh-faced student you saw before joins the circus as a makeup artist. He/she haunts your trailer and everyone tells you that he/she is besotted. Busy with your work, you take little notice until the Halloween party. The makeup artist arrives dressed in a detailed and realistic lion costume. He/she catches you behind the big top, and you happily surrender to his/her faux-feline advances. The two of you quickly become an item.
A new lioness named Lenore is brought to the circus from a rehabilitation facility in Texas. She is troubled and restive, but you have a good way with her, and the old tamer puts her in your care. One day, you are given the strange assignment of leading Lenore across an opera stage in a production of Aida. Dress rehearsals begin. Your pants don’t fit properly, and you go to the costume room and meet the most mesmerizing creature you have ever seen. He/she confesses a childhood dream of being a lion tamer, so you take him/her to Lenore’s cage after the show. Each night, the costumer appears like clockwork to help you pack up your equipment and linger with you there. You are besotted. One evening, as the show draws to a close, he/she tells you that he/she is planning a trip to Africa to observe lions in the wild. He/she invites you to go with. Do you
A) Go to Africa or
B) Feel flattered, but return to the circuit
GO!
YOU CHOSE C (Stay at the circus, work as a dresser)
To your surprise, the fresh-faced student you saw joins the circus as a makeup artist. The two of you stay up late together talking under the stars, and you find yourself falling in love. The old tamer hires a new helper, but he tells you that you have the right stuff and he wants you to come back when you’re ready. The new “apprentice” is frothing at the mouth to impress the old man. Even worse, the makeup artist whom you love begins to put you off in order to be with the new guy/girl. You think it’s because you now lack the glamour proffered by lion taming.
A new lioness, Lenore, joins the troupe from an animal rehabilitation facility in Texas, having been wounded by a poacher in Africa. She is still quite wild, and the old man seems unsure of how to deal with her. Her haunted eyes seem to reflect the angst that weighs upon your heart, and you take to spending listless hours by her cage. One night, you spy a person in the shadows. You call out to him/her, and an attractively nerdy looking guy/girl emerges with a gun in his/her trembling hand. “What do you want?” you ask the stranger. As it turns out, he/she is a veterinary post-grad from the facility in Texas. He/she has tracked Lenore to this very spot with the intention of smuggling her back to Serengeti National Park. You take him/her back to your trailer and talk things over. His/her case is convincing; you never felt sure that this was the right place for Lenore, and the more you think about it, the more the post-grad has it right. Do you
A) Join forces with the post-grad and take Lenore back to Tanzania
B) Agree to turn a blind eye and allow the post-grad to take the lion or
C) Believing that this is a misguided course of action, guard the cage personally, so that the post-grad cannot steal away with Lenore
GO!
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