The sad, smelly story behind a beloved gray whale skeleton in Long Beach

A beached whale carcass brought the Washington coast town together, before vandals picked it apart. But that didn’t stop the people of Long Beach.

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The sad, smelly story behind a beloved gray whale skeleton in Long Beach

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