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Meet Lolita—she's a beautiful orca who is 20 feet long and weighs 7,000 pounds.
She was captured and torn away from her family pod at the age of 4.
Lolita has spent the last 44 years at Miami Seaquarium in the smallest orca tank in North America performing mindless tricks.
This tiny tank is so small that it even violates the Animal Welfare Act's minimum size requirements.
Her former tankmate, Hugo, is believed to have committed suicide after repeatedly smashing his head into the walls of the tank.
Since Hugo's death, Lolita has spent the past 30 Valentine's Days without another of her kind—with no one to talk to and no one to love.
This is so heartbreaking that PETA decided to make Lolita its valentine and created a Love Letters for Lolita Facebook event.
On this event page, people all around the globe can make the world's loneliest orca a little less lonely by posting their love letter in support of her.
Not unexpectedly, these letters have turned out to be extremely heartfelt.
Especially some of the handwritten letters that have been made with so much love.
This little boy got straight to the point in his letter.
There are many adorable handcrafted valentines created for Lolita.
And some sad valentines as well.
There's even a whole group of kindergartners who have banded together to write valentines for Lolita!
And one PETA activist even created a text-in number for people to tell Miami Seaquarium that they want Lolita to be freed!
Some people wrote letters from the perspective of Lolita's family.
Some people's animal companions even chimed in with their furry little voices.
Like this adorable black Lab from Kansas who wishes Lolita could be rescued just as she was.
Many apologized for the terrible things that humans have done and continue to do to orcas.
A lot of letters touched on the frustration of just how small Lolita's prison is.
One thing is clear: There are a lot of people fighting for Lolita's freedom.
Some of these wonderful people go and speak up for Lolita week after week.
Because it's only right that Lolita should spend Valentine's Day at home with her own kind.
You can still show your support for the #FreeLolita campaign by posting your Love Letter for Lolita or asking Miami Seaquarium to do the right thing and retire her from performing pointless tricks like this.
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