Quotation Mark Mondays: Requiem for the large Kentucky Orange Bears

“Dad, did you know there are no more orange bears? There are no more Kentucky Orange Bears. They all died. They got hurt and they all died. You can't see them any more. There are no more Kentucky Orange Bears and they are all gone. You can’t see them anymore because they all died.”

“Oh no!”

“They all died, dad. The Kentucky Orange Bears. The big ones. The big Kentucky Orange Bears are all gone but you can still see the medium Kentucky Orange Bears and the Little Kentucky Orange Bears. You can still see them all over the place, but mostly at zoos. Mostly at the Orange Zoo. There are medium sized Kentucky Orange Bears and there are small sized Kentucky Orange Bears at zoos now. They didn’t die. The large Kentucky Orange Bears all died. But you can see the other Kentucky Bears at the Orange Zoo. The Orange Zoo is closer than the Brookfield Zoo. It IS closer than the Brookfield Zoo. Closer to us. You can see the Kentucky Orange Bears there at the Orange Zoo – but only the medium sized Kentucky Orange Bears and the little Kentucky Orange Bears. The big Kentucky Orange Bears all have died.”

“Really?”

“Yep. They have Kentucky Orange Bears at the Orange Zoo. You go a little bit down 59. Fifty nine. You go a little bit down 59, you turn this way. It’s even closer than Brookfield. They have Kentucky Orange Bears there. There are orange giraffes. There are orange elephants. There are orange flamingos. There are no orange skinned kimodo dragons. There are orange skinned tigers and lions and beavers. And that’s all there is there. And there are orange parks there, too. There are five little orange parks. And you can feed Anne there. And they also have the Kentucky Orange Bears. But only the medium sized ones and the little ones. Because all big Kentucky Orange Bears died. And next will be purple, okay? Actually, those are bears, too. There are no moose.”