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The Philadelphia Zoo had over a thousand visitors a year - it had a large stock of animals and was perfect for families as well as school trips.

What had ridden me to come here just now on a Monday afternoon I did not know. Someone from the others had to write with Barry or Jade and someone said I was coming - to wander around the zoo for a while.

Leslie told me as I walked to the ticket booth of the zoo that she had been the one to answer Barry's latest Whatsapp message. The fashion lover had asked if she wants to visit him on his job. Leslie had said that I would come. I had not been to a zoo for a while, and somehow the animals were sorry. They would not have the opportunity to just walk away and explore the vastness of the world. But how could I decline an invitation from Barry - he was so kind to me and he did not mind my shyness and my quiet manner. So I was grateful to Leslie for promising to tell Whatsapp about Barry.

"One adult please"

Once I arrived at the cashier, I once bought an adult ticket, got my balance back, as well as a map of the zoo and discount coupons for the zoo's resident restaurant. I thanked him and put everything in my backpack that I had chosen for today. It was just more practical and easier if something had to be transported

In addition, you could grab a backpack faster when you're finished and do not necessarily want to have a conversation with colleagues - it was just a lot more practical for me. Even if Leslie and Helena would say otherwise. So I went through the turnstiles with some other visitors to the zoo and found myself in a large square a few minutes later.

A few arrows indicated the direction where you could visit the various animal enclosures and I did not know which animal I wanted to go first. Did Barry also write Leslie's answer or something - which would help me to find friendly young man?

After a quick look at the screen of my smartphone - nothing, not a single other Whatsapp message was received. Maybe I would see Barry somewhere by chance and so I decided to go the loop - which would lead to the monkeys.

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"Yes - great we are not enough in a monkey house yet ", Brandon gave his opinion.

"Do you mean yourself Brandi?" Helena wanted to know.

"How many times have I told you, Helena, you should not call me Brandi - that sounds wrong!" Brandon said annoyed to Helena.

"Four hundred and twenty-one times - I counted," Jason said.

"Yes light distributor - agree with me, I like that," said Brandon contentedly and was once on the side of the nerd.

"Since when are you on Jason's side - you're cool," Helena wanted to know.

"I'm always cool - just because I agree with Jason because he agrees to stop that nasty nickname," Brandon said.

"Do you have any other disagreements - we want to enjoy the day in the zoo," Colin said, thus silencing Helena and Brandon ...

Helena and Brandon always had to fight, sometimes I think the two siblings are - or something like that. They often argue with each other, but they do have the same opinion about things like party. Secretly, I was grateful to Colin for silencing the two of them, and after a few minutes of walking on the circuit, I could already see the first enclosures of the monkeys.

I did not know what Barry was doing right here, so I just wanted to leave it to chance if I would meet the nice guy. Maybe he was something of a zoo keeper - Leslie had not been very specific about that.

"Okay Leslie - then I listened to you - but had been busy with something else - Barry or Kevin is the man for everything at the zoo," I said to myself as Leslie repeated the information on Barry's job again. The few of the zoo visitors who had passed me - I threw a funny look, I noticed and lowered my eyes some ground. They should not look so weird - there were some people who talked a lot and did not want to admit it.

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The first enclosure inhabited the lemurs and I watched the little animals with the striped fluffy-looking tail for a moment and had to think of the movie - The Penguins of Madagascar - that one lemur playing king there looked almost as similar as the inhabitants of the small enclosure.

"Can you talk, huh?" I said to a lemur who was just looking at me. Whether he would understand me well - maybe the little creature now asks me what I want from him. The animal made only a sound and climbed on one of the trees that had been placed in the enclosure.

I smiled and went on. There was not much going on at the next enclosures and so I had done the first round trip - now I had the choice between the trail that would lead to the reptiles or the big cats. I had enough time and so I decided afterwards - to take the path that would lead to the big cats.

I paused outside the Panter's outdoor enclosure and read the information board in front of the outer enclosure. There was a lot of information about the country of origin, the hunting behavior, the social behavior and the reproductive behavior of the panter - which I found incredibly interesting, not only because you could learn something about the animals - but also because I really enjoyed reading.

When, a few seconds later, the ringtone of my mobile phone answered and I knew it had to be an incoming call. I looked away from the information board and fished my smartphone out of my jacket pocket, ignoring what was on the display - who the caller was and accepted the call.

"Hello Sister - it's been a long time since we talked! "