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THE TOO-MUCHNESS OF GALVESTON

I am not a birder. I like one bird: the pelican. I might have died not knowing this, but nine years ago I moved with my family from New England to Austin, Texas, looked around, and realized we were far from the ocean. So we drove that summer to Galveston,. Familiar.

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