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   From: the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm   
      
   Sun, 09 Aug 2009 14:53:39 -0700 from Sean_Q_ :   
   > Somewhere I read a sci-fi story about the Sons of the Bird, who was   
   > a vicious raptor, terrible and obscene. Blood was on his beak, and   
   > he didn't go about rescuing Dwarves or Hobbits from burning trees.   
      
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