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Renée is gone in the morning, a pot of maple oatmeal for the girls and Trouble cooling on the stove and a note on the fridge, she's going to be gone all day on a day trip to Tucson with her friends.
Andi wakes up first. Bella's not far behind.
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"Close enough," she says. "We could nip over there and say hello right now, if you wanted."
Bella heads back to the kitchen table to spread Robin's notes out and skim them. She translates bits and pieces into her notebook.
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Robin leads them to the promised pigeon loft, and introduces them to the promised sweet little old lady, who offers everyone oatmeal cookies and insists that they call her Babs. She is fascinating, if you like pigeons.
Bella partakes of cookies and is, in fact, fond of pigeons right at this moment.
She would like to pet some pigeons.
She would like to pet some pigeons.
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Babs graciously allows the assembled teenagers to pet the pigeons, if they promise to be quiet and gentle and not disturb the birds excessively. Robin shows everyone her favourite, a little darling who looks just like any old pigeon you could find on the street, except - in Robin's opinion - infinitely prettier.
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Trouble agrees that that is a magnificently pretty pigeon. He pets her for a little while, which she endures very calmly.
