The misadventures of Sunshine, a community pig on the lam
Sunshine the pig

Illustration by Sam Island

Gregory Brown was a couple several hours into his change at a golf class in southwest Atlanta, fewer than five miles from downtown, when something unusual puttered down the highway, just outside the chain-backlink fence: a 150-pound, black-and-white pot-bellied pig. “We have deer and possums and even raccoons,” suggests the greenskeeper. “Never pigs.” Not right here, in any case.

It wasn’t difficult to coax her within the gate and away from passing autos, he claims. “Everywhere I went, the pig was guiding me. I was in a cart, and she was next me close to.” At one particular place, gamers paused to acquire in the sight of a pig on the fairway in close proximity to hole three, wherever she wandered a bit before settling in for a nap. (“They were thrilled to see her.”) In truth, the pig wasn’t a whole stranger: Brown had observed

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