Blair Braverman
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A lot of wild animals can hurt people.
Like...
Black bears, even grizzly bears, they can hurt people, but they're not hunting them specifically for food.
Ada's polar bear phobia is extremely rational.
She grew up with a lot of stories about them, legends, warnings, and this just builds her fear even more.
When I first lived in Norway when I was 10 years old, the grocery store had a taxidermied polar bear standing up in one of the aisles holding a bottle of Coca-Cola as an ad for Coca-Cola.
I think I didn't think too critically about that.
I mean, I was like a bear.
Cool.
Like I didn't, I should drink Coca-Cola.
I thought it was beautiful.
Ada has always heard in stories that polar bears won't bother poor people.
If you're poor, they leave you alone.
That would be really nice.
And this has reassured her in the past because she's always been poor.
But now she's making $50 a month.
Oh, God.
And she feels like now the polar bears are going to target her.
They are.
Because she has money.