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PoindexterOglethorpe

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Wed Jul 2, 2025, 11:08 PM

Jul 2

I have twice owned parrots, both African Grays, which are wonderful talkers. They picked up things like the sound of a toilet flushing, as well as whatever random things the humans said.

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