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33 shadows of Cranes Children folded the colored paper until it flew everywhere: cubby rooms, corridors, front office. 1,000 cranes in the auditorium flitted on quiet breezes of exhalation. Cranes for a girl who couldn’t get to class. Through the hospital’s plastic tent she saw birds thick and lustrous like her mother’s voice. They dipped, swirled, trilled. On her last breath they soared. students took on other projects, Halloween bats, robins for spring. Yet shadows of cranes remained: some saw them float to class. Assemblies heard faint cries, the flutter of wings, a migration. ...

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