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5 Owl Bits and Bits The books she covets are labeled with file folder labels she robs from her father’s desk. Owl builds a library called voluntad de oro, which literally means, Golden Desire or Golden Goodwill: Gold for Wish or Wealth and Goodwill for Desire or Love. The books were once her grandmother’s who had also lived in the blue book and in the green book, the leaves, the petals, the letters, the skins in the books slip out and crumble like ash. Those books told: her of north of the goose-girl, of surviving caves and shipwrecks. The words slip in and out like the Wolf’s tongue in Red’s ear. ...

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