Philip Demers
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You know, he was getting groomed by some young, rambunctious teenage boys in the tank, and he was loving it. The interactions were great, but it was very heartwarming for us to see that, just to see him, you know, really just lighting up around a sort of renewed family of his own.
This was elation that, you know, no currency can buy, no lottery win can replicate, you know, to just see the contrast in his environment from isolation in a place with little to no hope of even people knowing of his existence to now the interaction alone with other manatees. You saw the stress just shedding off of Romeo.
And that was, well, we became addicted to that feeling and we're pursuing it more and more and more.