Almost Human

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Alfred Fidjestøl. Almost Human

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Introduction

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A VISIT TO THE ZOO

When Billy Glad first returned home from Arnhem, Julius treated him like a stranger. Billy had only been absent for a few days, but Julius now acted afraid of him and clung to Reidun. After a while, Julius again recognized Billy as familiar and became as confident and trusting as he had been before. Julius was developing well both psychologically and physically. At only two months old, he had made his first attempts to crawl and had taught himself to balance on all four legs. By three months of age, he was able to crawl around on the slippery bathroom tiles. And he had even started to walk around on his hind legs. He grew teeth and tried them out on books and furniture, door frames and cupboard doors, acquiring an especially fond taste for the Glad family’s charity receipts from the Norwegian Rescue Mission.34 In March he began eating solid foods and was offered baby food, which he hated with a passion. It took heaps of patience and spilled mush before Julius finally got used to the human fare.

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