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Narrator: An American billionaire on a
dream vacation.
Tom Siebel: Oh, that's a good one.
Stacey Siebel: The idea of a wild animal
harming us never entered my mind.
Narrator: A wildlife lover looking for
that perfect picture.
Athol Childs: I said, "Please don't go closer,
we can't trust those elephants."
Narrator: Getting dangerously close to Earth's
largest land mammal.
Athol Childs: He felt he had a bond with them.
He was fearless.
Caitlin O'Connell: If an elephant chooses to charge,
more likely than not the person's not
going to survive.
Narrator: The choices they make will determine
whether they get out Dead or Alive.
[elephant trumpets loudly]
Tanzania.
Home of the Serengeti.
57 year old Tom Siebel has travelled from California
with his wife Stacey and their two young daughters
for their first African adventure.
Stacey Siebel: Isn't this fantastic?
In our town there had been a lot of buzz
about African photo safaris.
My older daughter was interested in going to
Africa and it was the summer before she
was to leave for college.
We were really looking forward to spending
some time together as a family.
Narrator: The Siebel's have chosen the perfect
time to make their trip.
Across the vast plains of the Serengeti one of
nature's most spectacular events is underway,
the winter migration and
a million animals are on the move.
Stacey and the girls are having the time
of their lives.
But Tom is distracted and not for the first time.
[phone rings]
He's an entrepreneur who's made billions of dollars from
technology start ups.
He's finding it hard to leave his work at home.
Stacey Siebel: Tom was working really hard,
everyone's going in separate directions and
this was going to give us an opportunity
to be together as a family.
[phone rings]
Tom Siebel: Ok, no, that's enough work for today.
Ok, I am officially on vacation with my girls.
Narrator: Tom succumbs to the incredible scene
before him and begins to appreciate
the amazing wildlife.
One of the biggest attractions are the Elephants.
Their reputation as gentle giants makes
them one of nature's most loved animals.
Caitlin O'Connell: The elephant is the
largest land vegetarian.
A full adult male can weigh, anywhere between
12, even up to 14,000 pounds.
In the wet season they will eat a lot of grass,
in the dry season they will eat bark,
branches and also fruit.
They only digest about 40% of what they intake,
so they actually have to eat quite a lot of food.
Tom Siebel: Oh, look up ahead,
that is really amazing.
Last time we were in this kind of jam was
in New York City.
Daughter: It's waiting for a light to change.
Tom Siebel: Yeah, ok.
You got one over your dad there.
Narrator: An estimated 350,000 roam the
African savannah,
down from 5 million in the 1930's.
Poaching has taken a tremendous toll and
may have changed the way these
uniquely intelligent animals think.
Caitlin O'Connell: From all the studies,
it is evident that elephants can remember
things from their past.
Elephants need to remember migration routes,
so there's a good chance they can remember
bad things from their past.
And this could have an impact on how they deal
with people when they encounter them.
Their siblings could have been poached
the day before and they see humans and they,
they remember what happened yesterday and
they're gonna react to that,
they're gonna defend themselves.
Narrator: After three days of spectacular game viewing,
the Siebel family move to a new camp for
an even closer view.
Daniel Muller: Hello, nice to meet you.
I'm Daniel, I'm the lodge manager.
I first met the family on the evening
of their arrival.
I briefly had a discussion with them
over the dinner table, to see how they were,
how they checked in and if
everything was okay in the lodge.
So what are you plans for tomorrow?
Tom Siebel: Well I think the girls are
going to be lying in tomorrow.
I'm going to be going on one of those safari walks.
Daniel Muller: Oh, that's great.
Stacey Siebel: That morning Tom got up very early.
He went to meet the guide for breakfast
so they could discuss the safety rules.
Guide: It is a big five game reserve,
so we just keep an eye out for the game.
Just follow me and follow my lead, whatever I say.
We're going to walk about two kilometers to
the water hole, just outside the lodge.
I do carry a rifle.
Tom Siebel: Ok, good.
Guide: But the most important thing for
all of us is that we don't run.
If anything charges us we just stand our ground
and it should move on.
Tom Siebel: Stand completely still?
Guide: That's it.
So when you're ready we can go.
Tom Siebel: Thank you.
Narrator: Lions, leopards and cheetah's
all roam the savannah.
On foot, there will be no chance of Tom
and the guide outrunning any predator
if they come under attack.
Nearly 2,000 miles away on Lake Kariba.
Its 2010, Don Hornsby is on a fishing holiday
with a group of friends.
Married with two grown up kids,
the 55 year old South African
is enjoying some downtime.
Athol Childs: I've known Donald for about 50 years,
we started school together,
we grew up together,
we were like brothers.
He enjoyed life so much he was a guy who needed
sort of 30 hours out of a 24 hour day.
You mention to any South African about,
you know, going fishing in Lake Kariba,
it's one of their dreams.
Narrator: Covering over 2000 square miles,
Lake Kariba is the world's largest man-made reservoir.
Don's son Gareth will run the family business
while he's away.
Gareth Hornsby: He wasn't too sure about
going up this time.
And I said to him, "Well you don't really
have much to do
and now I've got everything under control,
it's your time to relax,
so go up there and enjoy it."
Narrator: The friends are staying on a
houseboat on the lake.
It's their base for the holiday and
crucially a refuge in this vast wilderness.
Athol Childs: On the 2nd evening we'd all been sort of
chilling and that and the, the next minute Donald
appeared with no clothes on, just his little green
back-to-front bikini and the newcomers were,
quite shell-shocked and,
and it, it was, it was our Donald's party trick.
[group cheers and laughs]
[distant elephant trumpet]
What the hell was that?
That night about 10:30 we heard the elephants
making really distressed noises.
I've been there about 8 years in,
in a row and I'd never heard this before.
A crying sound, like they were stressed and in pain.
Narrator: Their houseboat should be safe.
But suddenly these friends are not so sure.
Caitlin O'Connell: If they had felt threatened or
were shot at by a poacher there's a lot
of trauma involved there and,
and that's not gonna go away any time soon.
Narrator: The next day the men decide to stay
on their Houseboat to fish.
But Don's only got eyes for the stunning scenery.
Athol Childs: He didn't only love the fishing
and his mates and friends around him.
Donald loved taking photos of the different animals;
it was a passion of his.
At about 4:00 these elephants appeared.
Look there, look there!
A mother with a younger one and about 3 young bulls.
Narrator: It's a wild herd,
looking to drink from the water's edge.
The presence of young bulls could make them dangerous.
Caitlin O'Connell: Young male elephants tend
to be the most dramatic.
When they're coming of age, between 12 and 15,
they become sexually aware, they become frisky.
They're going through hormone oscillations,
they have testosterone spikes and sometimes
they can do rogue things, those young bulls.
Donald Hornsby: That's incredible,
have you ever seen anything so beautiful?
Athol Childs: Everybody was quite sort of intrigued,
especially the new guys, because these elephants
came, came down to the water to drink.
And we all started taking photographs
of the elephants.
And then Donald got off the boat.
Narrator: Walking along the banks of the river
is strongly discouraged;
crocodiles, hippos and lions are active in the area.
Don knows this but it doesn't stop him.
Felicity Hornsby: I think most of his friends were
always wary because they never ever knew what he was
going to get up to next.
He sky-dived, scuba-dived, anything that was an
adrenalin rush he would do.
Narrator: It's a recklessness Felicity has
had to get used to used to,
she's known Donald since she was 12.
Athol Childs: Donald and Felicity were childhood
sweethearts, they did everything together, they,
they played together, they went out together
and they were like inseparable.
Felicity Hornsby: I first met Donald when I
was 13 years old.
My mum and Don's mum were friends and
she came around to visit my mum.
My mum opened the door and here was this little boy
covered in scars and bruises and he had a black eye.
And what he'd done was he lived at the top of a hill
and he actually had thought to himself,
I wonder what it's like to actually ride down
the hill with my eyes closed.
He went slap-*** into the back of a car.
Destroyed the bicycle and that I suppose set the
tone for my life with him,
because he was always doing strange,
out of the ordinary things.
Narrator: Now Don is moving towards the young bulls,
determined to get the best possible picture.
Athol Childs: I said, "Donald, just please,
don't go close to those guys because we can't
trust those Elephants."
But he felt he had a bond with them and
he was fearless of them.
Narrator: Don's love of Elephants goes back
to his first trip to Lake Kariba 8 years ago.
Gareth Hornsby: He fell in love with the elephants and
he had to go back every year and visit his babies,
as he would call them.
Felicity Hornsby: He would just sit and,
and watch them for hours and he found great peace
and comfort and he used to say to me,
he's never happier than when he's,
when he's actually there, you know, in,
in the bush with the animals.
Narrator: Don is confident he won't get hurt.
But if this is the same disturbed group they heard
last night, the bulls could turn on him at any second.
The Serengeti 2009.
Tom Siebel is on his first African adventure.
He's decided to take a foot safari with a local guide,
leaving his wife and kids back at the lodge.
Stacey Siebel: The attitude that we had the entire time
we were there, that's really nothing's going to happen,
it's all safe.
Narrator: Lions, leopards and hyena's
all stalk these plains.
Fatal attacks are rare,
but his guide carries a rifle just in case.
Daniel Muller: About a kilometer to a
kilometer and a half from, from the lodge they
encountered a herd of elephant.
Narrator: The herd is 15 strong,
a mix of mature females and their young.
Guide: I don't know if you like,
maybe we can slowly get ourselves a bit closer.
Alright then, just stick behind me.
Narrator: They approach downwind,
hoping to get close without the herd smelling
or seeing them.
The closer they get, the greater the risk.
Caitlin O'Connell: You have to know that you're
stepping into a dangerous situation.
People on foot to an elephant means a poacher
and if you're approaching really silently
then that's suspicious, if they suddenly get startled
with you right behind them, they're going to attack.
Tom Siebel: This is such a great shot.
[elephant trumpets loudly]
Caitlin O'Connell: The male elephant is,
is very explicit about telling you it's time to
back off, he'll shake his head and
crack his ears at you.
Now you're not as lucky with the females.
If you approach them and they shake their head at you
and you continue, they, they could kick into
a serious charge and just not stop.
If an elephant chooses to charge,
if it's going to follow through with the charge,
more likely than not the person's not gonna survive.
Narrator: Tom and the guide believe it's a
mock charge but the Elephant keeps coming.
They're down to their last hope.
A shot through the front of the brain will stop it.
But the bullet will have to pierce bone,
which can be up to 15 inches thick.
The guide misses and is tossed aside.
Tom has been told not to run.
[elephant trumpets loudly]
Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe 2010.
Don Hornsby is on a fishing holiday with friends
when he spots a group of Elephants at the water's edge.
He leaves the safety of their houseboat
to get a close up.
The presence of young bulls makes it
highly dangerous, but he believes he
has a connection with these giants.
Caitlin O'Connell: You don't want to get
between elephants and water.
By the time elephants get to water they're pretty thirsty,
they've been feeding, feeding, feeding and they
have to feed pretty far away from water and
if you're in the way, they might get aggressive.
Felicity Hornsby: I worried about Donald
constantly because I never ever knew what he
was gonna get up to next.
He was always, you know, from one adventure to the
next, doing things that most normal, normal people,
you know, think twice about doing.
Narrator: But the Elephants seem to
accept Don's presence.
And after taking plenty of photos,
he returns to the boat.
Athol Childs: I think Donald felt that he,
he could try and approach any elephant
and be able to connect with them.
Narrator: On the houseboat,
Athol has decided to head back out onto
the Lake to fish.
Athol Childs: Hey Don, you going to join us today?
Don Hornsby: Nah, you go ahead.
I'm not feeling great.
I'm going to hang around here and I'll
throw a line overboard probably.
Athol Childs: I said to Donald,
"Are you coming with?"
And he said, "No, I'm not coming with."
He said he wasn't feeling that well.
See you later buddy.
Don Hornsby: Cheers, enjoy.
Athol Childs: So I said well as long as you,
you fish from the actual houseboat that's, you know,
that's the rule and that's what you have to do.
Narrator: But then the Elephants return and
for Don the temptation to get more photos is too great.
Athol Childs: While the Captain was really busy again,
Donald grabbed his camera and he sneaked
off the boat without anybody seeing him.
Narrator: Don creeps closer to get the perfect picture.
The herd don't appear to have noticed him.
But Elephants have a super-sense that may
already have altered them that he is there.
Caitlin O'Connell: You could say that elephants
can hear with their feet because they're very
in tuned to vibrations in the ground.
You have to think of walking on a trampoline
'cause the Earth is an elastic medium,
if you try to tiptoe on a trampoline,
elephants can still feel that change in the ground.
And it's conceivable that as you approach
a group of elephants they might
pretend that they don't know you're there,
but they might be feeling your
vibrations as you walk.
Narrator: A young bull in the group turns
to challenge Donald.
But he's so concentrated;
he misses the warning signs that could save his life.
[elephant trumpets loudly]
Caitlin O'Connell: If you're faced with a
confrontation with an elephant,
be as submissive as possible.
Even though it seems really risky,
'cause they're right there, don't turn around
and run because it triggers a chase.
Narrator: So long as Don doesn't make any sudden
moves the bull may let him retreat to the boat.
Athol Childs: The terrain where Donald was
coming back was uneven and Donald fell over.
Narrator: The bull charges straight at Don.
2009.
Nearly 2000 miles away, on his first ever safari,
American billionaire Tom Siebel
is also being charged by an Elephant.
The 7,000 pound giant flings his guide aside,
leaving Tom totally defenseless.
He's been told to stay still,
advice that could save his life,
except this Elephant is a female and
when she charges she will not stop.
Caitlin O'Connell: The female has a lot more to lose.
She's got her whole family to protect,
so the matriarch she could be really,
really aggressive and just not want to play
around with any small warnings,
she's going to just go for you.
Narrator: Daniel Muller is the lodge manager.
Guide: Lodge, lodge, come in.
Daniel Muller: I received a call shortly
after I entered the office that morning early.
Go ahead for the lodge.
Guide: We've had an elephant attack.
We're about one kilometer away from the lodge.
Daniel Muller: He talked quite fast but very clearly
explained to me they were attacked by an elephant.
Guide: We need medical assistance
as soon as possible please.
Daniel Muller: I'm on my way, over.
At that moment your brain freezes and
you are not even sure what is up and down.
Tom Siebel: I can't feel my leg.
Guide: We're going to get some help now.
Daniel Muller: You're out in the middle of nowhere.
You don't know what to expect.
You just know that your first thing would have
to be get there and assess the situation.
Guide: Ok, I can hear the vehicle now.
Just keep coming, you're close.
It'll be ok, don't worry.
Daniel Muller: I parked the vehicle a
little bit away and so that I don't create such
an amount of dust in the accident area.
Tom, it's Daniel from the lodge.
I'm here to take care of you.
Tom Siebel: I can't feel my right leg.
Daniel Muller: Nobody moves it unless I say so, ok?
Lodge, lodge come in,
I need an emergency evacuation.
We need a plane here fast.
Narrator: Daniel has basic first aid skills
but has never had to deal with a serious incident.
Daniel Muller: You have a sense of hopelessness.
You feel completely overwhelmed by
what you are facing there.
Narrator: Now, as the first responder she
must assess Tom's horrific injuries.
Daniel Muller: When I looked at the injuries
I saw two prominent wounds,
it was clear that the tusk of the
elephant gored into his flesh.
Then I looked at the right leg,
there was two bones sticking out.
Narrator: Daniel is overwhelmed but
Tom's life is in danger and her instincts
kick in to high gear.
Daniel Muller: And I started cutting around
the, the wound, saw strangely
no blood gushing out,
which was a relief because then I assumed
that there's no main artery damage.
Narrator: Daniel cleans and bandages as best she can.
A local nurse has been called
and should arrive soon.
But then Tom goes into shock.
I need you to stay with me.
I think that shock most probably started
kicking in and he started shaking tremendously.
Tom, Tom, I need you to stay with me.
Narrator: They're miles from the nearest hospital;
any car journey will be too long and too painful,
so they've called an air ambulance.
Tom Siebel: I need you to call my wife.
Daniel Muller: I don't think that's a good idea Tom.
Tom Siebel: Call my wife, Stacey can handle this.
Narrator: Stacey and two daughters are
at the Safari lodge.
They have no idea that Tom has been
attacked by an elephant.
Tom Siebel: I need to see her, ok?
Daniel Muller: I realized he's surrounded
by strangers, he's in the middle of nowhere
and he doesn't have his family
and support around him.
Lodge, lodge, come in.
I need you to get Stacey here urgently.
Radio: What about the kids?
Daniel Muller: No, don't wake the kids.
Don't tell her it's an elephant attack,
I'll tell her myself when she gets here.
I wanted only her to come out and
not the entire family;
I didn't know how they would handle it.
You're unsure of how much time lapses,
every minute feels like an hour that you are waiting.
I saw the vehicle arriving.
I wanted to prepare Stacey for what she
was about to see.
Stacey Siebel: What's happened?
Daniel Muller: There's been an accident.
Tom has been charged by an elephant.
Stacey Siebel: Is he ok?
Daniel Muller: It's serious,
but he's talking, ok.
Her first reaction was clearly that
of immediate shock.
Stacey Siebel: I didn't want to see it.
You could just see his foot was not connected
to his leg in a correct way.
Narrator: A local nurse has arrived with Stacey.
She administers pain relief and
assesses Tom's condition.
The horrific open wound on his leg,
the blunt trauma of tusk through flesh,
would normally result in massive blood loss.
Stacey Siebel: Everyone kept asking him,
"Did you bleed a lot?"
And unfortunately he kept saying,
"No I didn't bleed."
Daniel Muller: I think there a tremendous initial
blood loss but because it's lying on
soil all the blood went into the soil.
So nobody knew how much blood he has
lost at that stage.
Narrator: In fact, Tom has lost 5 pints.
Over a third of his entire blood supply.
Without a transfusion his major
organs could fail at any moment.
2010.
On the banks of Lake Kariba,
Donald Hornsby lies motionless after being
attacked by a young bull elephant.
Don's best friend Athol is fishing nearby.
[alarm sounds]
Athol Childs: We were just throwing our lines in
and the next minute the horns went.
I don't like the sound of that, let's get back.
And obviously it went through our minds,
"has somebody fallen or been injured?"
Narrator: The captain of their houseboat
has raised the alarm.
Athol Childs: As we all got back onto the boat
the Captain explained what happened.
I didn't know whether to think Donald
would be dead or alive.
But I knew we had to get there as soon as possible.
Donald?
And so we shot down and that's when I went up to
Donald, we turned him over;
I felt for a pulse,
[heavy breathing]
there was no pulse.
There was absolutely nothing and when you saw his chest
you knew his heart had been crushed.
The last thing I expected that day was that I,
I've lost one of my best friends.
Narrator: Don has taken a tusk through the groin.
But it is the impact of the elephant's head on his chest
that stops his heart and kills him instantly.
Athol Childs: I think at that stage we
were all dumb-struck.
And then one of the guys said,
"Oh here's the camera,"
'cause the camera had been flung.
And then I knew it was my task to let the family know
and that was the most difficult call
I've ever had to make.
Narrator: Don's unexpected death had a massive effect
on his wife Felicity and their two sons.
Felicity Hornsby: I've lost my best friend.
My childhood sweetheart is no longer with me.
I thought that we'd live, you know,
to see a good old ripe old age together and
that's been taken away from me.
Gareth Hornsby: It was a, maybe a big point on us
getting that, retrieving that camera and wondering if
we'd be able to see the pictures that he had taken.
The last shots were of the herd,
quite deep into the bush.
That maybe helped us to understand where he was
and what he was doing.
What I believe, that it was truly a case
of the wrong place at the wrong time.
Narrator: Donald's death was one of hundreds
caused by elephant encounters every year.
Tom Siebel has also been gored and he is facing his
own battle for survival.
A plane should arrive soon to take him to hospital,
if he can just hang on long enough.
Stacey Siebel: I'm going to call the doctor.
Tom Siebel: You're going to call Doctor Ting?
Stacey Siebel: Yeah.
Tom Siebel: I don't know what time it
is in the states?
Stacey Siebel: It doesn't matter.
Narrator: His wife Stacey is determined to save him
and calls their doctor back home.
Stacey Siebel: Doctor, it's Stacey Siebel.
We're in Africa and Tom's been attacked
by an elephant.
Dr. Ting: Getting a phone call on a Sunday afternoon,
from a patient that happens to be overseas,
is not unusual for me, but getting a phone call from
one in a field in Africa, caught me off guard.
In these severe open fractures,
it's well known that the first 48 hours is crucial.
Narrator: Doctor Ting will remain on standby
to offer expert guidance to his Kenyan colleagues
over the phone.
A plane has finally arrived to take Tom
to a trauma hospital in Nairobi.
Daniel Muller: The plane's landed;
let's get him out of here.
Nurse: Ok guys;
let's get him on a stretcher.
Daniel Muller: I said to my help that we are
going to move him very slowly,
almost millimeter by millimeter.
One two, three, easy.
Stacey Siebel: He was incredibly brave
through the whole thing.
He got on a pick up and got in a plane,
flew to Nairobi,
got in an ambulance and to the hospital
and he was awake during the entire time.
So he was very brave.
Narrator: Tom is determined to remain positive.
But his injuries are severe.
Dr. Ting: The amount of energy needed to create
this injury would be equivalent to somebody
riding a motorcycle and coming off
probably 50-75 miles an hour.
Narrator: The possibility of amputation is high.
Dr Ting wants to ensure that the injuries to Tom's legs
are properly cleaned and stabilized in Nairobi before
he's flown back to America for surgery to
repair the tissue damage.
Dr. Ting: The next phone call I got was from the
doctor at the facility, who assured me that he was
stable, because his vital signs, his blood pressure,
his pulse and everything were normal.
The doctor said there was no active bleeding,
we had made arrangements that he was stable enough
to fly and then we had made arrangements for
him to have IV fluids,
pain medication and antibiotics and a nurse
that would manage the, the, the medication on board.
Narrator: Dr. Ting believes Tom is now stable
enough to make the 20 hour flight
back to Los Angeles.
But what he doesn't know is that Tom suffered
a massive initial bleed after the attack.
The first responders have missed this,
as have the medics in Nairobi.
Dr. Ting: Tom, Tom had lost at least 30% of his blood.
From just that amount of blood loss,
it could potentially kill you.
Narrator: 10 hours into the flight Tom takes
a turn for the worse.
Stacey Siebel: It wasn't until then that we realized
that this was really a life or death situation.
We didn't know that his body was needing blood so badly.
We landed in the middle of the night in San Jose
and he was um very, very weak.
They started giving him blood and more and more
blood, he never would have enough,
he just kept getting more and more.
He was really, really sick.
Tom Siebel: I am the luckiest person
in the world.
I mean what's the probability of surviving
an elephant attack?
Narrator: A series of transfusions ultimately
saves Tom's life.
Tom Siebel: It's quite a sight to see a couple of
tons of elephant moving at you and
then the elephant stopped, you know,
18 inches in front of my nose.
And I can smell her,
I can see the hair follicle,
I can see the tusk, the eyeball.
At that point the elephant knocked me to the ground,
rolled me, punched me, gored me,
put a tusk through my leg, crushed my other leg.
The pain was unimaginable.
The single thought that I had was, you know,
"Please God make this stop."
Narrator: Doctors battle to save Tom's leg.
After 19 reconstructive surgeries
and a series of life-threatening infections,
the outlook is bleak.
Tom Siebel: They'd say, "Tom, what are you doing?"
Just, you know, "Cut the leg off,
this whole experience could be behind you in two months,
it's not that big a deal, prosthetics are great."
Narrator: But Tom is determined to walk again.
And after years of rehabilitation he has
achieved his dream.
Tom Siebel: It's been a long process and
we still work at this five days a week,
what doesn't kill us makes us stronger.
Narrator: The attacks on Tom and Donald highlight
the danger of getting too close to these massive animals.
Caitlin O'Connell: For you as a tourist you
kind of have to take the responsibility of thinking
what, what impact you're having,
even if your guide wants to impress you and
give you this great experience,
is it appropriate to approach elephants?
They're with a guide who's a very knowledgeable guide,
they have a firearm, they've been trained.
But anything could go wrong.
Gareth Hornsby: I take, I take comfort that he was
killed by something that he loved and cared about
so much and there was discussion about them
shooting the elephant and we said absolutely not.
That's not what he would have wanted,
it was an accident, it was a mistake
and the elephant shouldn't, shouldn't have to pay for,
with its life for it.
Felicity Hornsby: I feel like a big part of me is
missing, having known him for all my life.
It's like half of me's been chopped away.
I'm slowly learning to become me on my own and
that's very difficult, but I'm getting there.
Stacey Siebel: I think that as traumatic as
the whole experience was,
some good did come out of it.
Our youngest daughter got to spend a lot of time
with him and consequently they are
so close and every day when she
gets home she wants to know where her dad is.
And that's just really special.