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near-embryos become the handsome blue male watching me closely?
If I stayed long or strayed too far, my mother would know that I wasn’t picking blackberries but hunting birds’ nests and call me back. Her lard pail would be nearly full; the bottom of mine barely covered. “Leave the birds alone,” she would say, knowing well I neither would nor could.
I was tom from my memories of past blackberry picking by the emphatic announcements of a Carolina Wren. Red-ced-ar, Red-ced-ar, he announced, over and over, then he fell silent and only the notes of the Indigo Bunting fell on the morning.
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