One of the Human Zoo “Animals” Is Not Having a Good Time

One of the people hired to be exhibited in the London Zoo posted a note on Secondhand Smoke. She is not having fun and thinks putting people in zoos is a stupid idea. Yes, that’s a polite way to put it. She can use e-mail so perhaps we could say that she isn’t “just an animal,” after all.

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