I am SUCH a sucker.

Every so often something is so cute it makes me cry.

Like this:

Long story short:

Two guys in London in the 1960s. Buy a baby lion from a department store and name him Christian. Live the high life with it for a year. Lion gets too big. Coincidentally the stars of Born Free run into the lion in London. They hook the two guys up with the Born Free lion guy, who takes Christian out and successfully (as far as we know) integrates him into a new pride.

A year later the two men who raised the cub return:




Did YOU bawl?

p.s. I saw this at Metafilter