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In recent months, the humane society has made it public that elephants kept in captivity are being cruelly treated. 

Circus animals, of all variety, are being sent to game preserves around the world so they can live out their lives in their natural habitat.

I would like to believe that maybe the belief of magic that one little elephant had, may have been the beginning of the change of man’s heart.

After all, the greatest of wishes can come true at Christmas.

Ellie opened her eyes and blinked.  While she had been sleeping, the thick green grass that crunched beneath her feet was now covered in white fluffy cotton that was cold and soft.

She shivered as she looked around, thinking, ‘Where did my sunshine go?  Will it come back?  Will there ever be grass to play in again?’

She heard the sounds of the people who came to feed her everyday and breathed a sigh of relief.  Things were still normal even if they weren’t the same.

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Fresh hay was thrown into the stall where she and her mother stayed when not out.