| Stella takes charge of Ruby, mothering her in absence of Ruby's own mother | The image is an example of a ticket confirmation email that AMC sent you when you purchased your ticket |
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| Ivan is good friends with the other animals in the circus, especially Stella the elephant and Bob, a stray dog | The One and Only Ivan is a work of fiction, but the inspiration for this imagined tale lies with a true story |
Just below that it reads "Ticket Confirmation :" followed by a 10-digit number.
| Ivan and Kinyani were real gorillas — and so, by the way, was Jambo, whose story is recounted in the book | Ivan hopes Julia can help him get Ruby to the zoo, but instead Julia talks her dad into placing the pictures on a billboard used to advertise the circus |
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| She is with a new elephant family somewhere in the zoo and she looks happy | But all other characters and situations in the novel are entirely the product of my imagination |
Ivan is placed in a strange cage that he finds to be cleaner, but smaller than his last one.
8| When the mall where Ivan lived went bankrupt, he was placed on permanent loan to Zoo Atlanta, which houses the largest group of captive western lowland gorillas in the nation | Ivan makes a huge picture of Ruby in the zoo and writes the word home at the bottom |
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| At that point he was added to an odd collection of animals housed at a circus-themed mall in Washington state | The Zoo still receives many letters and greetings about him and for him, and he remains one of the most asked-about individuals ever to live at Zoo Atlanta |
Reporters come in response to the billboard.
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