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What I learnt from becoming an unwilling pet owner
When my child came home from school with five goldfish in tow, I saw him mature. But it also made me reflect on the way we see these creatures in society.
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Keeping those fish may have taught the writer and her son some valuable life lessons in responsibility, care and even dealing with grief.
ST ILLUSTRATION: CEL GULAPA
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It was a Friday evening and I had just finished a long day at work. The last thing I expected to see myself doing was burying a dead goldfish.
A few hours earlier, we had noticed one of my four-year-old son’s pet fish was looking rather sluggish. It didn’t take long for us to find it floating at the top of the tank.
