Excerpt from a YouTube interview (Will Humphreys interviewing Jeff Letendre) in which the speaker recounts finding a lone fawn near his terrace. The anecdote emphasizes empathy, care, and the speaker’s concern for wildlife given nearby road hazards—used as a humanizing example within a larger conversation about empathy and leadership.
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And a deer right now. So the deer is. The deer is. Man, it's. It's unbelievable. It's. I don't know how lucky I got, but I'm on the phone right there on. On my terrace, and I see this phone coming out of the woods alone. So I say, oh, the mother must be near somehow, somewhere. But it's still cute, you know, still rare. So I hang up with my friend and I try to call this thing. I try to get closer, and she just ran away in the woods. I see her again the day after, and she's still alone. And then this time, I retake my time. My dogs are inside. I get to get a little closer to me. She looks at me and she seems a bit lost. And there's no mom, so. And I, we. I live near a highway, and we often kill deer, you know, like road kill. By accident. Sure. So I was like, shit, she probably lost her mom and she's alone and she doesn't know what to do. I grabbed a bottle of milk with, you know, this was. With something to suck on it.