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The Gas Station Bird

10,000 Birds

He is simply waiting for someone to move him from the filthy plastic bucket where he is tethered next to a gas pump. You can own a gorilla in Indiana, but not a bear in Michigan. The bird is just chilling out, waiting for the urge to fly. The bird below is also waiting, but not to fly.

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Black Bear

Animal Person

  Black Bear.   Enter Black Bear Crestfallen, I schlepped my sorry self from my minuscule apartment, across the Village Green toward the coffee shop. And then the whole lot of backslapping, ecstatic locals entered the coffee shop, as the once-mighty bear lie writhing in pain. How could I have been so wrong?

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