I couldn't think of any other name, so I used the one from the movie that gave me the inspiration, Duma, which is a very nice movie.
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The death of a loved one normally causes extreme emotional distress, brief depression, and alcoholism. But when Richard Montez died, it turned his daughter's life upside-down.
You see, After Vietnam, Richard, who had been drafted, found himself drunk in a bar somewhere in the US. After his seventh beer, a woman walked in, and she was very beautiful. Under normal circumstances, he would have been too shy to talk to her. But in his inebriated state, he found himself walking over to her, buying her a drink, and then renting a motel room.
The next morning, they realized that they forgot to use a condom, and Maria, the Hispanic woman that was in the bed with him, expressed her disdain for children. But Richard wanted kids, so they made a deal. If she was pregnant, he would take the child, and pay her fifty bucks a month to let him kept it.
Maria, who had a love of money, agreed. And nine months later, Gabriella Montez was born.
Maria went to New York City, and Richard went to Zambia, Africa, to take of the farm that his grandfather had abandoned. It's a couple of hours outside the city, by car, and it was the there that Gabriella called home.
Despite the fact that she never had a mother figure, Gabriella turned out just fine. In fact, come would say that she's the perfect woman. Her father taught her his morals and values. One, being that money isn't important, and that life, culture, and happiness, can't be bought. While Gabriella might not be the strongest girl, she sure is skilled with a knife. Her father was a green beret, and he taught her everything he knew.
Even though he didn't really know her mother, he figured that she got her incredible smarts and wit from her, and her amazing connection with animals. He was wrong though, Gabriella got it from him.
When Gabriella was eleven, they found a baby cheetah. While Richard looked around for his mother, Gabriella bundled him up in a blanket. Safe to say, when Richard came back, Gabriella had already grown attached to the cute little fellow.
So they brought him home, and before too long, he became a part of the family. Their only problem was naming him. And after a month, Duma was officially named. However, Richard made it clear to her that Duma was a wild animal, and they would eventually have to bring him back to the wild where he belonged.
About a week after finding Duma, Gabriella found a baby bush baby that was lost from his mother. She nursed it back from its weak state, and when she let it leave, he came back. It seemed animals liked Gabriella. She named the bush baby Sanaa, and after a fatal meeting with Duma, they became close friends.
Yes, life couldn't have been better for Gabriella.
But all good things must come to an end. And a few days after her eighteenth birthday, Richard had a heart attack. The doctor told him not to get out of bed for two weeks. But Richard only waited a week before running down the stairs. It was then he realized that he didn't have much time left in his life. And he wanted his last moments to be happy. So he and Gabriella planned a trip where they would bring Duma out into the wild, in a nice place, teach him a few things, and then leave him off.
Gabriella wasn't exactly ecstatic about it. Duma was her best friend, but she knew that he had to go off. Cheetahs only live for about twenty years. And he was seven years old. Wild was in his blood, and he had to spend the rest of his life in the wild before it was too late.
But the day before their big trip, Richard had another heart attack. And this time, he didn't make it.
Now, her father had taught her a lot. And death was one of those topics. He told her that death was inevitable, and that it happened to everyone, wither they liked it or not. He also told her that if she sulked over his death, he would come back and haunt her.
She tried not to be sad, but her father was her world. And now she was being sent to live her mother in New York. And since her father left her a lot in his will, she was able to pay for Duma and Sanaa to come with her.
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