Thank you for reading and understanding. Your compliment helps remove some of the burden of simply knowing the story. I have always wondered what happened to the poor creature.

And,

thank you for submitting the story to @curie.

The Elephant Sanctuary, in Hohenwald, TN, gives circus and zoo elephants excellent medical care and a thousand acre natural habitat to live out their lives in. They are a bright spot for the elephants and worthy of any donations I have been able to make.