When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it's an act of complicit cruelty. (Katherine Applegate)

When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it's an act of complicit cruelty.

Katherine Applegate

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