An Unfortunate Beauty

There on the roadside for dozens or maybe hundreds of passersby to see and enjoy: a coal black fox squirrel just sitting erect in the grass in rural Georgia. As I drove by and slowed down I thought “you are beautiful with your lustrous black fur and nearly white nose .“ This morning I told Sal about the black beauty and thought (and said) “some hunter would love to kill that squirrel for a trophy, to lock away in a room somewhere, get dusty and finally go in the garbage” An unfortunate beauty. The price paid for standing out is high, no matter what the species. Trophy deer, fish, rodents, snakes and yes, women and to a lesser extent men are all captured and displayed. For the crime of being beautiful.
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