The young seal couldn't have been more than two days old, and yet he was all alone. Sometimes he would swim 1, but he always came back. At first we thought it was 2 that he kept swimming back to us, until we noticed that he obviously had been 3, and had nowhere else to go. We call him "Curious George".
Without his mother's milk, George appeared very4with his eyes closed. I jumped into the water and swam up to him, 5we were less than two feet away. My heart went out to George and I just hoped that he had the 6 to interact with me. Suddenly, he 7 his eyes and immediately he jumped up between my arms, putting his head against my chest. It was a(n)8 moment. But I knew that George wouldn't 9 without some help.
We10 the local conservation volunteers. They were 11 that in the absence of his mother, he had developed a 12 relationship with us. They promised they would bring him to an area with 13 people living there and keep an eye on him. Even though it was hurt to see him 14, we knew that he was in better hands.
The next day we15 the conservation volunteers and asked what George was doing. 16 the volunteers informed us that he was too close to humans, we realized that that was probably our 17! They decided to bring him to a small island wildlife preserve with a lot of seals in the area, where they could better 18 him.
A week later, we called again, and were informed that George was19 in the water swimming with other seals. George was 20. And he will always swim in my heart.
