"Of the people in my family, I was by far the one most interested in animals. I don't know where this came from. Perhaps being the middle sibling had something to do with it. Truthfully, I think it's something you're born with. I owned as many pets as I could. For a while, I had a stray dog who followed me home from school."1
In her search for a life surrounded by animals, Hall once tried to offer herself for adoption to a farm family. When she was seven, she ran away from home hoping to join a pony-ride concession. "My strongest childhood memories are of trying to escape, not so much from something, since ours was a happy family, but to something--to the country, to dogs, to horses. I was always going off to be by myself in the country, to visit a horse or other animals I knew. I preferred doing things on my own, which I think worried my mother. She always pushed me toward other children--afraid, I guess, that I'd grow up to be a misfit. She wanted me to go to the movies as part of a group; I wanted to go alone, so I could really get into the story.
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