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I was in a family of five (maybe I was the father? maybe the little boy?), and we were vacationing in the Hamptons long ago, maybe in the 1940s. Our family primarily used an elaborate, multi-room tent, but it was planted alongside houses, and we somehow had access to an old house nearby. Maybe it belonged to a grandparent or aunt. One weekend, some adult friends were visiting, so we were staying in the house. We all went outside to the beach. The water was coming right up to the house. We were all floating
I was in a crowd of people at night, near a fairly busy intersection, when we saw a lion that had escaped from the zoo. It was smallish, without a mane. It crossed the road, came toward us, and made its way through the crowd.
Suddenly I felt it clamping down on my right hand. The bite was painful and the lion was not letting go. Finally I crammed my camera in its mouth and freed my hand.