Satu's Solitude/ La soledad de Satu | A picture is worth a thousand words

Sadness and rejection were etched in his gaze; children at the zoo also urged him on from afar, shouting, "Move! We want to see you walk, jump." Rejected and without a family, all he wanted was a hug. He was searching for the stuffed animal that had been taken from him a few days earlier—Satu had been deeply attached to it ever since a little girl had handed it to him through the bars on the ship. She had said, "Here, so you won't be alone," and Satu had understood it all. From then on, he was truly on his own.

He was overcome with emotion when, after many days of confinement, he was released into a spacious area filled with large trees. He saw others like himself up above. They approached him fearfully—just as frightened as little Satu was. Yet, they simply took away the one thing that kept him going: the stuffed toy the girl on the ship had given him. They soon lost interest in him and let him go.

La tristeza y el rechazo la traía consigo en la mirada, los niños del zoológico también lo apremiaban desde lejos con un muévete queremos verte caminar, saltar. Rechazado y sin familia, él solo quería un abrazo. Buscaba el peluche que le habían quitado hacia unos días Satu era muy apegado a él desde desde que una niña se lo habia dado a través de las rejas en el barco. Le dijo toma para que no estés solo y Satu lo entendió todo. Desde ahora el sería solo él.

Se emociono cuando después de muchos días encerrado lo soltaron en un espacio amplio y lleno de grandes árboles. Vio que arriba había muchos iguales a él. Se acercaron asustados, tan asustados como estaba el pequeño Satu. Pero solo le quitaron lo que lo sostenía en pie, el muñeco que le había dado la niña en el barco. Pronto perdieron interés en el y lo soltaron.

Satu missed his mother terribly; he had seen her when she stopped moving and was clutching him to her body. Then, they were simply taken away. Satu did not know what his ultimate fate would be; at one point, lying beside his mother, he even wondered if he was dead and merely dreaming. He saw a familiar figure approaching the glass—it was the girl from the ship. While everyone else shied away from him, Satu did not; he placed the doll against the glass so she could see it. She recognized him immediately and signaled to her father that this was the one she wanted for her home—begging him to let the doll come with her. Seeing how gently the doll interacted with his daughter, the father was delighted to pay the price to set him free.

The little girl simply took him home, and so Satu—often dressed in the pink tutu he loved best—lived alongside that little girl for many years.

Satu extrañaba mucho a su madre, la vio cuando dejo de moverse y ella lo aferraba a su cuerpo. Simplemente se los llevaron. Satu no sabía cual sería su destino final, llego a pensar que estaba muerto tirado al lado de su madre y que solo estaba soñando. Vio acercarse al cristal una figura que reconocía, era la niña del barco. Todos los demás se alejaban de ella, pero no Satu coloco la muñeca en el cristal para que ella la viera. Lo reconoció enseguida indicándole a su padre que ese era el que quería para su casa, que por favor lo dejaran venir con ella. Su padre al ver que era de trato suave con su hija al ofrecerle la muñeca, acepto encantado en pagar por liberarlo.

La pequeña simplemente se lo llevo a su casa y así Satu vestido a veces con tutu rosa que era el que más le gustaba vivió al lado de aquella pequeña niña durante muchos años.

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