You are listening to a Clarks World magazine podcast with your host and narrator Kate Baker.

Greetings Clarksville citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

We're on to our fifth story for the month of June, issue 153. For those of you who have stuck with us from the very beginning, you guys are amazing and awesome. And for those of you who may be just joining us this month, Hello and welcome, and for those of you who are joining us for this story.

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So this story is titled Bonobo and is by Robert Reed. Now Robert

Reed is no stranger here to Clarks World. This will Mark Roberts 11 story here

at Clarks World dating all the way back to April 2015 with the Empress in her glory.

And the most recent one, aside from this one, is pain-wise, featured in the February 2019 issue.

Robert Reed is the author of nearly 300 published stories,

plus more than a dozen novels.

He is best known for his great ship stories,

including The Memory of Sky, and for the novella A Billion Eves, which won the Hugo Award in 2007.

He lives in Lincoln, Nebraska with his wife and daughter, and you can find all about Robert at Robert reedwriter.com.

So my listeners who have been with me forever who have been with me for a month and who have been with me for a story.

I hope you can sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

June.

Living with a stranger.

For 18 years, that's what June had been doing.

Which was the second most painful lesson from that brutal Sunday.

Tidy, was the stranger's name, who happened to be June's quiet child.

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