Elephant + Porcupine

A Love Story Nobody Asked For

The elephant is a warm, socially gracious creature who moves through life with quiet dignity and a deep need for harmony — and then there's the porcupine, who treats mild inconveniences like personal attacks and has elevated sulking to an art form. In friendship, the elephant's legendary patience can just barely absorb the porcupine's prickly outbursts, making for a relationship that works mostly on the elephant's terms. Romantically, though, the elephant's need for closeness and the porcupine's instinct to bristle at intimacy creates a pairing that's less 'opposites attract' and more 'opposites exhaust each other.' Between the sheets, good luck — the porcupine is already annoyed about something, and the elephant never forgets it.

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