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While researching the f Osage Orange tree for last week’s column, I read a phrase
] that vividly summoned an experience of long ago. It’s odd how the past can assert itself , when least expected. ; I was again a teenager with a passion for birds, back fj in the little North Carolina d town where I grew up. When I R was in high school, instead of ir walking the direct half-mile from school to home on the gravel sidewalk with my
I cousins, I took a much longer route through back roads, over fields and across backyards of ^neighbors. There were more birds on this route.
One autumn day, when Indian summer bathed the world in yellow light and the air was as mild as April, I moticed a tiny bird — a Myrtle
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