Gigi & Nate

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Nate Gibson may use a hand. Two of them, actually.

When he was simply 18, Nate contracted a type of bacterial meningitis that left him a paraplegic. He can’t stroll, or sit, and even flip over in mattress by himself. It’s taken years of bodily remedy for him to even manipulate his fingers—after which, simply barely.

The illness took just about all the things from Nate, and it exhibits no indicators of giving a lot again. Earlier than the illness hit, he was simply weeks away from school, with a complete world of chance past that. Now, his world is his wheelchair. His future: many years of dependency.

So, yeah, Nate may use a hand, together with a number of different limbs, too.

And Gigi? She has a number of to mortgage.

Gigi is a capuchin monkey, and she or he hasn’t had the best of lives, both. She was present in a cut-rate petting zoo, although no-one needed to pet the indignant little primate. The house owners tossed her Cheerios and chilly glances till Carolyn Alibon, head of a service animal charity, got here to whisk her away.

For the subsequent few years, Gigi skilled to develop into a service animal—somebody specifically conditioned to assist paraplegics like Nate be only a bit extra unbiased.

However Gigi’s a suspicious gal. And Nate’s house—stuffed as it’s with unusual sounds and smells and other people and (ugh!) a canine—doesn’t strike her as essentially the most homey surroundings. A minimum of, not at first.

However maybe with time, Gigi may take a shine to Nate. Maybe with endurance, they’ll study to stay with one another. In spite of everything, Nate at all times appears to have some tasty peanut butter on his finger. And, effectively, the man appears to be like like he may use some assist.

Gigi may be capable to give him a hand. Two of them, actually. And she or he may even throw in a tail, as effectively.