Originally written January 2014
Meet Jess.
She was only five weeks old when I saw her, and she was noticeably smaller than the other guinea pigs around her.
I hadn’t gone there intending to bring another guinea pig home.
That was the plan, anyway. 
But then I saw this tiny little thing beside the others and immediately started feeling sorry for her. Once that happened, there was really no hope for me. Somehow, within a few minutes, her being unusually small had become my responsibility.
So Jess came home with me and became the newest resident of our guinea pig village.
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