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Caesar the No Drama Llama
Claim to fame: Appeared at last year s protests as a paragon of chill among the chaos.
What s the story? Before 2020, Caesar was only the Portland area s second-most famous therapy llama, having first sparked local attention when a photo of him riding the MAX made the rounds on Reddit. But after Rojo went off to the great grass field in the sky and his taxidermied body got sent to the Washington State School for the Blind in late 2019, the Salem-based camelid stepped up to fill the void. His owner, Larry McCool of Mystic Llama Farms, began bringing him to the nightly protests that followed the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, both to show solidarity with the racial justice movement and to provide a calming presence in a tense situation. National media outlets like ....

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