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Maybe I should have cut him some slack. With his broken wing and lifetime of eating roadkill, he probably had a lot to be ungrateful about. Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.

Jeannette Walls

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Jeannette Walls
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: April 21
Journalist
Writer
Phoenix
Arizona
Eating
Meanness
Much
Wing
Cutting
Creature
Broken
Permanent
Probably
Wings
Create
Luck
Maybe
Lifetime
Slack
Spirit
Creatures
Ungrateful
Hard

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