Here Bird performs, "The Twistable,Turnable Man Returns."

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Here is the song "I Was a Bird" in which she dreams about flying high in the sky.

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he said. "Get away from here. If you try to take this bird, I will fight.

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Roasting a whole chicken can take well over an hour, depending on its size, but simply roasting small bone-in pieces of a broken-down bird, as is called for here, takes half an hour or less.

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We're not sure when the bird is expected to take her first voyage, but here's hoping a few others are hatched in the near future.

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And any cuts now are a gift that keeps on giving, with helpful compounding effects in outyears unless they are erased or undone by future legislation (always a good bet, but the bird-in-the-hand rule should apply here).

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