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I have come across a couple of the slower moving creatures on our planet so far this spring, in need of some assistance. Today, I will share with you one I watched fling out from underneath a vehicle in front of me on the way to the store the other morning.

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I turned around and hurriedly tried to find it. He was upside down in the bottom of the ditch about 30 yards down the hill, boxed up inside his shell. I mean, that's gotta be scary! Some metal giant almost squishing you and throwing you like a discus? 

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So I took the young Eastern Box Turtle home. I pieced what I could of his shell back together. @khaldeesi shared a fun fact with me she learned from watching a science video on YouTube. The shells of turtles are actually an extension of their ribs! The more you know.

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I let the girls love on him for a couple days while he regained his composure. Caramel wasn't sure what to think of him. For a minute, I thought she would make him her new chew toy 😆. We let Scuffy go and the princesses were proud to have ~~illegally harbored yet another native species~~ helped a fellow earthling along its merry way. For all we know, it was God seeing if we still carried compassion. Who knows? I do know, you should <b>REMEMBER TO BE YOU!</b> <i>I always am, #turtlepower!</i>

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