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nuxvomica

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2. My mom had a parakeet named "Sunny"

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Thu Jul 3, 2025, 04:26 AM

Jul 3

She was always trying to teach him to speak without success until one day she spilled a can of paint in the basement and screamed "shit!" Upstairs, the bird immediately responded by saying "shit!" and that was the only word he ever learned, and would say often.

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My mom had a parakeet named "Sunny" nuxvomica Jul 3 #2