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CHAPTER 1

Slender-Billed Parakeet

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Enicognathus leptorhynchus
The tree had so many leaves it was toppling with treasure, from so much green it blinked and never closed its eyes.
That's no way to sleep.
But the fluttering foliage went flying off green and alive, each bud learned to fly, and the tree was left naked, weeping in the winter rain.