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bleunt t1_jbs8lr6 wrote

Reply to comment by BTBAM797 in Kiska, sometimes know as the world’s loneliest orca, has died at Marineland by waitingforthesun92

Reading 1979 gave me so much fucking anxiety I want to cry. I was born in 1984, so she had been there all my life plus more.

Just to offer perspective, she was there before Jimmy Carter left office. They caught her the same year Alien and Apocalypse Now came out. Hell, it was only 10 years since we walked on the moon. And she died NOW. That's such an extended torture my mind can barely grasp it.

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Schmichael-22 t1_jbsulq0 wrote

It’s like being imprisoned for 45 years for a crime you didn’t commit. Then spending the last several years in solitary confinement. Such a cruel torture for her.

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cheap_walmart_art t1_jbszy88 wrote

Yeah, reading that hit me too, I was born in 79 and the idea that my entire life is the prison sentence for this poor creature is absolutely heartbreaking.

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