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Remembering the death of our first pet

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We need time to grieve, for the loss to register, and to figure out what went wrong, so that we can do right in future.

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It started with the flutter of a wing and a diminutive chirp.
Just like that, the baby budgie - sprouting tufts of cerulean-blue feathers - became our family's first pet.
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