A Goat Showed Me the True Meaning of Being Open-Hearted

Science can’t fully explain what animals do to our souls

Jeff Chu
Forge
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6 min readJul 3, 2019

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Illustration: George Wylesol

I had promised my husband that I’d bring home some goat’s milk.

That was before the two goats arrived at the Farminary at Princeton Seminary, where I was studying theology and working as a farmhand. Maybe, I told him, we could even make cheese.

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Jeff Chu
Forge
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