When you’re a kid, adults get you to sort of wrap your entire identity up in a individual nouns. What’s your favorite color? What’s your favorite food? Your answers to these things define you for the better part of your childhood. I like green and anyone who doesn’t like green is an idiot. And, when it comes to animals, the concept of a favorite takes on a more powerful role. Because animals are living things, that spark of consciousness wrapped in fur or feathers and exerting itself in the strangest ways, a favorite animal becomes almost like a spirit guide. Most of the time, people are socialized, taught to chase social status and financial wealth, and their spirit animal gets tossed aside with stuffed toys and other childish things. For Paul Lopes, however, he retained his spirit guide long into adulthood. For him, the aardvark is still his entire identity.…
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