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Coaxing a parakeet back into its cage

Velvet wants to go home now.

Emily Sanders Hopkins
Oct 20, 2020
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From toward the end of the book…

The Senate Building has a parking garage. The parking garage has a mailbox. To use the mailbox, one must have a special ID.

I was living in the parking garage, as a man. I had the special ID, and yet I was still having trouble getting into the mailbox. If I didn’t send the letter from this box by the 11th, the letter woul…

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