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Melbourne zoo carousel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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This week I met T and his mum, C.\u00a0 C was a lovely chatty woman in a leopard skin jumpsuit with bright blonde hair who stopped outside the station for a post-zoo smoke.\u00a0 Her son T stood against the wall nearby.\u00a0 He was a smiling visually disabled man.\u00a0 Possibly he was intellectually disabled too although he may just have had a puckish sense of humor.\u00a0 He started singing in a pleasant tuneful voice and when he got to the part about hopping he jumped up and down.<\/p>\n

“Now he knows he\u2019s got an audience he won\u2019t stop,” said C cheerily.\u00a0 “There\u2019s a spider monkey in the zoo he always sings to.\u00a0 It loves it. Comes right up to him.”<\/p>\n

That and the Carousel were apparently his favorite zoo things.<\/p>\n

The other singer this week was an 8 year old girl in glasses and a blue dress who started singing \u201cTwinkle twinkle little star,\u201d while her mother tried to work out the ticket machine.\u00a0 Was it the weather that bought out this tunefulness? It IS finally summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  This week I met T and his mum, C.\u00a0 C was a lovely chatty woman in a leopard skin jumpsuit with bright blonde hair who stopped outside the station for a post-zoo smoke.\u00a0 Her son T stood against the wall nearby.\u00a0 He was a smiling visually disabled man.\u00a0 Possibly he was intellectually disabled too …<\/p>\n

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