Very fine job, Kevin!!But I think there are some really deep implications in this story.
What on earth could be going on with this fellow? Acting out a past incarnation? Trying to compensate for havingbeen eaten alive by a tiger in a past life? His mother was scared by a tiger when she was pregnant? how could this work, that a man-thing should grow up with a compulsive desire change species to such an extent he would spend a quarter of a million dollars and completely isolate himself? Very bizarre, don't you think?
I need to let this one soak a bit...
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