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“Well young lady,” I said, “It has been really interesting watching all of this but it is about time for me to fly farther south. It’s a lot of work, this flying south stuff and I don’t know what I’ll find when I get there. I will miss all my friends here but I’ll make new friends. I know all the good places to eat here and I don’t know any food places where I am going. But if I don’t fly south and the snows come ... well, you know what would happen to me.”
The girl sadly replied that she knew what would happen.
With those last comments, I leaped into the air and with two big beats of my wings was airborne. I made one more slow pass over the Young Girl’s garden and house and called down to her.
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