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In this true story, published by Random House in 2004, Dawn Prince is on the brink of survival as a homeless gay teenager from the wilderness of Montana, searching for connection on the streets of 1980’s Seattle counterculture. When she escapes to the zoo for the oxygen of nature, she unexpectedly makes a primal connection with Congo, a Silverback gorilla. Dawn gets a job at the zoo and begins a journey of self-discovery as she learns from Congo, how to love, how to see herself in the gorillas, and ultimately in other human people. This connection begins a lifelong quest as a deep creative thinker, a discovery at age 36 of being on a spectrum of autism, and an academic path to become a PhD in primatology and now an author of seven books.