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Somewhere around 6:45 on a Tuesday morning the day before my birthday, I was awoken by my cell phone, dinging from somewhere underneath my pillow. Did you know that birds chirp in the morning to alert each other that they made it through the night? A gang member who raised doves in the yard told me that. The birds wake …

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