HGROCKEDNIKE
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So the short story is there was an American UFO cult based in San Diego, California and on March 26, 1997 the thirty-eight Heaven’s Gate members (men, woman and children) were found dead from a mass suicide. Authorities found the dead lying neatly in their own bunk beds, faces and torsos covered by a square, purple cloth. Each member carried a five dollar bill and three quarters in their pockets. All 39 were dressed in identical blue shirts and sweat pants and brand new blue-and-white Nikes.
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“ I think of the chimp, the one with the talking hands.
In the course of the experiment, that chimp had a baby. Imagine how her trainers must have thrilled when the mother, without prompting, began to sign her newborn.
Baby, drink milk.
Baby, play ball.
And when the baby died, the mother stood over the body, her wrinkled hands moving with animal grace, forming again and again the words: Baby, come hug, Baby come hug, fluent now in the language of grief.” — Amy Hempel (The Collected Stories)(via suburbsappendages)
