Susan Fair lives on the shoulder of South Mountain in Maryland. She works for a wonderful public library system, writes a lot of stuff for a lot of publications, and is reasonably well-tolerated by her Park Ranger husband. As a child she was bitten by a neighbor’s pet spider monkey. She assumes she/he was in a pissy mood because of having to spend her/his life in a bird cage and does not hold a grudge, but rather, judges each monkey based on her/his own merits.
You see, I am a survivor of a chimpanzee attack—an attack by my pet chimpanzee, my darling Bentley—and yes, fine, I suppose you could say he ate my face.