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A Terrapin’s Luck

Back home we have two terrapins, Sir Big and Lady Green. Lady Green should really be renamed Lady Luck. Why? Because many a time, she went missing, and thinking it’d be the last of her, we give up looking. A few hours/days later, she will appear somewhere, and be brought back to the comfort of the plastic tub.

You would think the male terrapin would be more active. Not so. Lady Green is constantly eager to escape from the feeding tub, which has slightly shorter walls than the usual tub. She has escaped countless times. Usually we find her within the next half hour, but sometimes, we don’t find her. And it could go on for three days. Once she was discovered dehydrated and dried after a few days. Sometimes she appeared perfectly alright, crawling about.

She’s one lucky terrapin, destined to live long.

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