My younger brother would be leaving for college and I was leaving for a new job in Europe. We only had a few precious months left as a family living under the same

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　　. Everything would change in the

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　　.

　　A family of magpies (喜鹊)

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　　in our maple tree. This family seemed to be extraordinarily lively. One early morning, the noise was so

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　　that my dad went out to see what the birds were doing. He found a young magpie

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　　around the yard, flapping his little wings and yelling his little head off .

　　Dad looked up in the tree to find Mommy and Daddy Magpie sitting on a branch and staring

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　　at him. He had to do something for the poor little thing. Dad called the zoo for

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　　. They told him not to

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　　it and assured him the baby would learn to fly on its own. Dad no longer

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　　the magpie around the yard. He did, however, watch him

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　　from the living room window, just to make sure a cat didn't turn him into

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　　.

　　The next day I got a

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　　at my summer job. It was from my father. He never called me

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