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Guess Who I Am

I preen and I primp. I am all that and more really. Other creatures avoid me. I understand why. They are intimidated by my beauty. I am a hundred times prettier than my wife. She has to be plain, so she can hide our eggs In the tall brown grass. But I can strut and do. My crown waving in the wind. People drive by and almost fall out of their cars Watching me fan myself; for I am a gorgeous hunk of male.

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Date: 10/17/2020 8:22:00 PM
A bird of different feathers (as opposed to a different feather). Love seeing those males strut their stuff. ~ gw
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 10/18/2020 11:16:00 AM
I know; and they do it so excellently!
Date: 10/17/2020 12:51:00 AM
Peacocks!! amazing birds. had them around us when we lived in Jaipur in India!! you describe them well!
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 10/17/2020 10:28:00 AM
My grandparents lived across the road from a peacock farm when I was a child.
Date: 10/16/2020 8:14:00 PM
Maybe a peacock? ..."Watching me fan myself" :) ~Angie
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 10/16/2020 8:34:00 PM
For sure!
Date: 10/16/2020 12:37:00 PM
Or simply just blessed with an overwhelming sense of false confidence
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 10/16/2020 8:39:00 PM
True could be
Date: 10/16/2020 4:32:00 AM
Yes a proud peacock, saw a white one once and he gave his display, a plume I think they call it. Tom
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 10/16/2020 8:35:00 PM
I love them a lot!
Date: 10/16/2020 3:10:00 AM
Ah! The enviable peacock! Lovely personification, Caren:)
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 10/16/2020 8:35:00 PM
Thank you Jo.

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