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Who doesn’t like a heartwarming, spiritually uplifting Christmas
story of rags to riches? After a year of suffering cold-blooded Reptilian
Brains, it’s only fitting that I wrapped up the year with an Amphibian Rescue
Operation that gave Oliver Twist a run for his money. So sit right back and
you’ll hear a tale…a tale of a fateful trip…
It began last Wednesday, Dec. 17, when my friend Tom,
the building manager, and my no-English Armenian neighbor (whom I’ll call
Armin) knocked on my door. Armin was standing in the hallway holding a tank of
water with a turtle that was continuously swimming in it. After 10 years,
Armin’s daughter had tired of her pet and dumped it on him.
Clueless and frantic, Armin kept saying: “Here! You
take! Take now!”