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Befriending a Grocery Store's Resident Sparrow

By Julie Zickefoose
Published January 5, 2005 at 11:00 PM CST

We've all been in stores and seen birds fluttering around and wondered, how did they get in there? Do they live there 24-7? Commentator Julie Zickefoose remembers a sparrow she met in her local grocery store that became quite popular with the employees there.

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Julie Zickefoose
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