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The old slaughter house is a worn around the edges building. It's closed now.

A double decker cattle tractor trailer delivered "Cincy Freedom."

The truck backed up to the cow entrance.

Down the cow went.

"Cincy Freedom" jumped the six foot wooden fence hinged on the right in this image.

The neighbors across the street.

The first leg of "Cincy Freedom's" travels, down Massachusetts Avenue going South.

She takes a left turn onto Marshall Ave.

She goes uphill, under I-75 towards Central Parkway.

Taking the high road turning left on Central Parkway for the two mile walk towards Mount Storm.

The walk becomes pastoral along the old canal route.

She passes by the Marathon Gas Station.

She walks past the Jiffy Lube just before Hopple Street.

Making it through the busy Hopple Street Intersection, she heads down a slight slope towards the I-74 Entrance.

She did not stop at Frisch's.

No break at the Rest Inn.

No clean up at the Parkway Car Wash.

A bar did not interest her.

White Castle's offices was quickly passed.

The Church offered no solace.

Thinking quickly she takes a right turn just before the funeral home.

Up towards Clifton Hills Terrace.

These quiet streets offer her some much needed relief.

At the first level she takes stock of the situation.

Taking the higher road towards the summit of Clifton Hills Terrace.

Almost to the top.

Not staying long she starts downhill.

Coming out onto Ludlow Avenue she takes a left towards Old Ludlow Avenue.

The Cemetery to her right, she continues onto Lafayette Ave.

Going up Lafayette Avenue towards Mount Storm Park.

Seeing a small park access road she stops before taking the left.

Now she is really feeling fine with thick woods on the right.

Finally a rest at Mount Storms Cupola. The scene Tom used for the "Cincy Freedom Jumps Over the Moon" painting.

Cow watchers try to spot her.

After two weeks roaming the park she gets interested in McAlpin Avenue.

"Cincy Freedom" just after capture.

In her own element, she is still skittish around humans.

Where it all started.

The space between the top of the fence when closed and the top of the entrance is only about two feet. Freedom would have had to squeeze into that space.

They told a poignant story of a cow jumping through a small window half dead when the pile driver did not work. Another time the main lot gate was left open and the cows herded into the street and where they were later corralled into an adjacent empty fenced lot.

This is the site of Tom's latest painting of "Cincy Freedom."

Many residents in the high rise on the hill saw her out their windows during her two weeks ordeal.

A man with a tranquilizer gun hits her and she is loaded onto a truck with a fork lift eventually ending up at the Farm Sanctuary in Wakins Glen, New York.