My husband gets upset with me because I get up out of bed at dawn every morning to go watch the birds wake up. I like rising with the birds. I like to hear them sing.” I ask Lilliana if she owns pet birds. There is a long pause. “I don’t own birds. I set them free. “You see, my husband got me some small birds as a present but I don’t like them in cages so I went outside one day and I released them. I had two blue birds and one green bird. I wanted my birds to be wild so I never even named them. They kept returning to my yard. I used to talk to them about how their day was going. I asked them
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