The star, its white blaze startles from the forehead of the new brown calf who, curious, turns from his mother to look as I ramble past. Marked, anointed? Is there a difference? Even without the bull’s-eye, he’s meant for slaughter, and he turns back to nurse, indifferent, as I head home to my own children. […]

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