"The Bird"
Was it alive?, "Wondering to myself what had just transpired!" This is what I said as I turned my sisters bird over on the ground and feathers flew all around me. It was a Friday morning when I said these words. I was at home by myself and I was very confused to what had actually just happened. At this point I didn't know what I was going to do about the situation that had arose. At first I poked the meager creature as it lay on the floor several times to see if it still had any life left within his poor little body. Instead of waking up and moving about the room, the bird remained in its apparent inert state, like a miniature stuffed animal.
While the bird remained on the living room floor I grabbed the phone to call my mother. My sister's bird died while it was underneath my care.
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