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This fall, I heard Temple Grandin speak at the University of Illinois. As a cattle producer, her words were both reassuring and convicting.

They sometimes touched their lips together, breathed into one another’s open mouths, or stood on two legs and hugged. Goodbyes, on the other hand, were long understood as a behavior that only humans ...

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