A video going viral on Reddit shows Justin Lewis, an electric company lineman from Kentucky, cradling a fawn and giving it belly rubs. The young deer squealed whenever he stopped. As he wrote on Facebook, “momma deer was watching from the hillside. The fawn was following us around the job site, so we carried it up the hillside and he left with his mother.”
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