Charlie’s living just down the road from a slaughter house, and normally this big grey building and the people that walk past it are just as grey – oppressed as the building itself. But then a pig breaks loose, and for ten minutes or so the street is in uproar, people are laughing, running and chasing. This little pink pig – for ten minutes or so – has actually made people smile, people stopped being grey. They must have been at least three other colours. And then of course, the pig was caught and taken back to the slaughter house, to be, well, slaughtered. And he said that he realised in that moment that there’s something so powerful, beautiful in the things that are both funny and sad.

even the toughest tough can have a little bit of tenderness.
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