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A Woodchuck's Ten Days In Paradise

NPR
Published August 23, 2000 at 11:00 PM CDT

A woodchuck spent ten ecstatic days in Commentator David Budbill's garden before Budbill shot it, to preserve his vegetables. Budbill grieves for the woodchuck and for himself.

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