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147 The gorillA womAn It’s the changing moment I remember not the plot: circus setting transplanting the gorilla heart to save her (soon to be reclaimed by darkness and death) not her lover the animal trainer but the horror moment when she looked into the mirror and changed to a gorilla They exploited transformation blast furnace of the fairy tale Even as a woman she was different darker then more febrile carrion sweet wilder lower sexier too But for years I was haunted by that moment when she changed frail desirable lovely woman growing dark hairy fearsomely strong crossing beast boundaries and sex boundaries too Once gorilla she was wholly female again But I forgot the sad romance 148 of her sex how she tried to save the animal trainer her lover from a lion how they shot her carrying him unconscious in her arms grotesque and doomed a woman trapped within a beast I remembered only the moment of power human to animal how her nose grew flat and opened how her face began to smolder in black hair ...

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