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Genre: HIstorical Fiction
Word Count: 100

UNTAMED

“Oh, you can’t be serious, Margaret,” said Ethel. “He gave that monstrosity to a young child. It will give her nightmares. What’s wrong with a Teddy Bear?”

“Mortimer isn’t too keen on Teddy Bears. Too cliché.”

“Then he shouldn’t have one. But a stuffed chimpanzee for a one-year-old?”

Margaret smiled. Her husband had brought the stuffed monkey he’d named Jubilee a few days prior.

She led Ethel to her daughter’s room where Jane slept with her arm curled around the monkey. “See for yourself.”

To this day, ninety years later, Jane Goodall’s beloved Jubilee sits on her dresser in London.