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Write Every Day: The Daily Word Counts Of Great Authors

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The Gorilla Who Was Brought up as a Boy in an English Village

ward 22/10/2025

This is the incredible true story of John Daniel, who was no ordinary gorilla John Daniel was a young gorilla who was adopted by an English family in 1918 and … Read More

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The Gorilla Who Was Brought up as a Boy in an English Village

ward 05/11/2021

I wrote this sad story about a gorilla raised in a small English village for Medium earlier this year. It went massively viral with 63,000 reads. And that was behind … Read More

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