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helps him.

They throw me back.

The man holds his gun and points it right in my face.

He has blood coming out his nose. He looks very angry. I think he will kill his gun at me, but the woman
says, "Do not shoot the chimp! He does not know we help him!" I tell them already. Bonobo, not chimp!
She, not he! They are stupid as well as rude.

The man lowers the gun. I see what to do. He can not expect this. When I meet new people, I surprise
them by my fun trick, but this time is not for fun. I reach out and take the gun from him with my foot. I
surprise him so much he lets the gun go easy.

Now he is not scary. I point the gun at him, right in his face.

See how he likes it. He does not like it. He jumps at me. I pull the trigger with my foot. The gun makes a
big noise, much louder than on TV. I think I kill the white man, but he gets up and runs away. Not like
TV again. He should lie down and say something nice and close his eyes instead of run away. The white
woman runs away, too.

Poor Raoul. He is hurt. Both his eyes are red and puffy and his nose bends in the middle. I put the gun
down. I go to Raoul and untie him with my feet. Then Raoul unwraps my arms.

We are in the back of the white van of the white man and the white woman. We get out of the van with
the engine still on. The sky is still dark, but the sky is bright blue in one direction. I never see the sun
come up before. I see the sun over the walls of inside, but never see it come over the edge of the world.
From inside, I cannot see the edge of the world.

I say, "We call police?" Raoul says, "We do not call police." Nothing is like TV today.

I love Raoul. He is not like the white people. He feeds me. He talks to me. He has hair on his chin and
dark skin, not as dark as bonobo skin, but not white either. I give Raoul a big hug.

Raoul says, "Thank you, Jules. You save my life." The sun comes up like fi re.

It looks so big! It is not the same sun! I am scared again. I think about Benny Hinn. I think this is maybe
the bad place called hell. I am scared. Benny Hinn says only one person called Jesus ever comes back
from the bad place and he was a baldface.

I do not know if bonobos can come back out of the bad place, even special fox-p bonobos.

"We go back inside the Big Door?" I say. Shivers shake me all over.

"OK, Jules. Don't scare. All is OK. We go back," he says.
I say, "I love you, Raoul." Raoul strokes my head then he takes my hand and we walk back.

I am happy so I sing inside. I sing the song about the old rock, even though I do not know what cleft
means.