The Afternoon Oliver Sat Down
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Bluebird came down hard on the path.
Her wing was hanging wrong.
She could not fly at all.
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Joel wanted to fix it quickly.
Lily wanted to look it up in a book.
Oliver just sat down beside her.
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He did not say very much.
He stayed there all afternoon.
Whenever Bluebird was frightened, he was already there.
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The wing got better slowly.
Bluebird remembers the sitting
more than she remembers the wing.
