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My Octopus Teacher

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She's just slowly dying

My Octopus Teacher

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and timing her death exactly for the hatching of those eggs.

My Octopus Teacher

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I mean, it struck home so hard for me.

My Octopus Teacher

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Here's an invertebrate, essentially a mollusk,

My Octopus Teacher

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sacrificing her own life

My Octopus Teacher

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for her young.

My Octopus Teacher

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All those eggs hatched.

My Octopus Teacher

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They're tiny, and they go into the water column.

My Octopus Teacher

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Hundreds of thousands of them.

My Octopus Teacher

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And the next thing I saw, she's washed out the den, barely alive.

My Octopus Teacher

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[gentle, moving music playing]

My Octopus Teacher

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And the fish, you know, feeding on her.

My Octopus Teacher

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A lot of the scavengers coming to feed on her.

My Octopus Teacher

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It was just heartbreaking.

My Octopus Teacher

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A part of me just wanted to hold her and chase them away.

My Octopus Teacher

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But I didn't do that.

My Octopus Teacher

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The next day...

My Octopus Teacher

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a big shark came...

My Octopus Teacher

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and just took her away, you know, into the misty forest.

My Octopus Teacher

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Often, I go to the place of her main den.