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He has a face only a mother could love - but unfortunately for this adorable little seal his big blue eyes and sweet disposition weren’t enough to win her affections.

In fact the pup’s ginger fur and pink flippers proved too much for the mother who abandoned him, earning him the title of the world’s loneliest pup.

News.com.au: “Sealed with love: happy ending for little seal no-one wanted to play with”.

“There are too many redheads in relation to demand,” he told told Danish newspaper Ekstrabladet. “I do not think you chose a redhead, unless the partner - for example, the sterile male - has red hair, or because the lone woman has a preference for redheads. And that’s perhaps not so many, especially in the latter case.”

Mr Schou said the only reliable demand for sperm from redheaded donors from Ireland, where he said it sold “like hot cakes”.

The Telegraph: “Sperm bank turns down redheads”.

Melvin Dwork en 1943.

Nearly 70 years after expelling Melvin Dwork for being gay, the Navy is changing his discharge from “undesirable” to “honorable” — marking what is believed to be the first time the Pentagon has taken such a step on behalf of a World War II veteran since the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell.”

The Navy notified the 89-year-old former corpsman last month that he will now be eligible for the benefits he had long been denied, including medical care and a military burial.

Dwork spent decades fighting to remove the blot on his record.

“I resented that word ‘undesirable,’” said Dwork, who was expelled in 1944, at the height of the war, and is now a successful interior designer in New York. “That word really stuck in my craw. To me it was a terrible insult. It had to be righted. It’s really worse than ‘dishonorable.’ I think it was the worst word they could have used.”

Associated Press: “Navy clears gay WWII vet’s record”.

The Undesirable.

J’ai eu l’occasion de tester le nouveau train touristique de Charlevoix, entre Québec et La Malbaie.

Une expérience mitigée…