uolingo When My Father Died
Elder warned of the “funereal bird,” with “it’s cry not a musical note but a scream.” Now its music is the vibration in my pocket as we make list after list of everything we need to do before the burial.
In a symphony of songbirds, the owl is a soloist of omen. The Duolingo owl, Duo, is specifically a Spectacled Owl which is native to the tropical rainforests, its largest predator the oncoming car, and has a hoot like the rattling of a screen window before a storm.
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