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bus, red or black... which color is it now?" Later Lauryn, his older schoolmate, says she thinks German isn't even a proper language, dismissing the teacher's ambiguously racist comments while trying to comfort JJ. Later JJ feeds a surprisingly friendly magpie and subsequently he shows Lauryn how he can get another wild bird to hop into his hands. The bird becomes injured when Lauryn handles it too roughly. JJ tries to rehabilitate the injured bird but it dies. He solemnly buries it in the backyard.
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