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“I said what if instead of underarm hair at puberty girl;s got two little wings budding on their backs and all of their friends and sisters and mothers and aunts and grandmothers praised the day they appeared.
And steadily, year by year instead of girls getting more hair under their arms and down below and instead of larger breasts their wings would grow.
They would start off downy and colorless but end up the velvet green of a peacock’s tail or budgerigar blue or the crimson of a king parrot. Every girl would be different. And in the afternoon, after school, they would practice flying in their backyards.”

-Jenny, from ‘The Anatomy of Wings’, by Karen Foxlee.

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