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The Okapi: Everything and Nothing

Nobody knows about me, they don’t know what I am. They think I’m a cross between a zebra, a thoroughbred horse and an antelope…

Perhaps I am. But, I know that I am one thing. I am an okapi. Yes, an okapi. Of course you’ve never heard of it, no one has. I’m a lot of animals thrown together, and still less known than a platypus.

Oh, the sad life of an okapi. I like to mope around, and never let anyone see me. Though, I suppose that’s why nobody knows what I am if they do happen to see me.

I hate being unknown, but I won’t let anyone get to know me because I resent them for not knowing already. I am a contradiction.

I am an okapi.

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