“How do you keep going? She’s the first one I’ve lost.” The desperate text came through my mobile phone as I rushed through a check out line at the grocery store. Hurrying to get home in time to participate in a global candlelight vigil for an ailing elephant named Pelusa who lay, dying, at the La Plata zoo. Pelusa passed away peacefully later that evening. Her death hit the elephant rescue community like a sucker punch to the gut. She was so close. Steps away from rescue. T