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Dec.16.2012
Unable to sleep, I wept into my pillow, each note of the blackbird’s song breaking my heart.  A doomed blackbird, his life drained away by the exhaustion of singing all night, and by the damp and icy December temperature.  That is what a friend of mine, a keen birdwatcher, had told me....