Broad Run Lifestyle Magazine November 2016

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Piedmont Press & Graphics created and published the area’s Lifestyle Magazines beginning in 2005. Our publications have grown to three (Warrenton, Haymarket and Broad Run) and about 160 pages each month with a total mailed distribution of over 33,000. We were very pleased with the success in the region, especially for you, our monthly audience.

Our goal has always been to deliver the best local stories to create a better community.

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Fortunately, we ultimately chose to work with Rappahannock Media, a team led by local publishing veterans Dennis Brack and Tom Spargur and an entire team of people from the area including editor Pam Kamphius of Warrenton. Combined with our existing staff, we believe this is a dream team. Rapp Media publishes the Culpeper Times, the Rappahannock News and the prestigious Piedmont Virginian Magazine. Quality journalism will reign with the Lifestyle Magazines.

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Local Artist Teresa Duke

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Duke’s love for art first began because of her mother, a talented watercolorist who would let her young daughter tag along when she took painting classes at Dunbarton College in Washington, D.C.

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“She would take me with her maybe once a week,” Duke recalls. “It was this wonderful, huge studio and the teacher would set up a little still life for me.” As she got older, others began to notice her talent, including her elementary school classmates. “In school, I was always the class artist. I can remember being in fourth grade, and the kids would pit me and this other boy against each other in these drawing competitions,” she laughs.

The development of Duke’s artistic identity really began her sophomore year of college, when she dropped the Pre-Med track she’d initially taken on and launched into the study of art. Her style during this period was very exploratory; most of her professors at Boston College subscribed to the ideals of abstract expressionism, which takes

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a very open-ended approach to art. “We flung paint on a lot of really big canvases; there was really no technique to it. I got out of there and realized I didn’t know how to draw,” she says.

Duke went on to earn her Master of Fine Arts from George Washington University, thus beginning a new era in her art style. The curriculum there took much more of a classical approach, taking Duke back to the techniques of the 16th century, including gilding, making paint, and making gesso, a mixture that helps to prime a surface for paint. Also at George Washington, Duke finally learned how to draw.

This skill allowed her to develop the painting style she follows today, which she defines as loose contemporary realism.

“I’m interested in recording what I consider to be beautiful things in the world around me,” she says. Her paintings indeed reflect many beautiful places, from landscapes dotted with the changing leaves in autumn to the iconic bell tower atop the courthouse in Old Town Warrenton. Duke also works with still life, focusing on spreads of fruit and flowers.

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by the Steinway piano in her living room. Her deliberate choices in composition, color, and subject matter breathe life into her paintings; while they are not photorealistic, they are alive with personal significance and emotion. “I’m into this mode of visual communication,” she says. “So it’s more than just objects and places, it’s visual journalism. I’m processing feelings and ideas into my paintings and hopefully those parts of my personality come through.”

To Duke, art is a compulsion, a necessity.

It is the way in which she expresses her relationship with the world around her. Duke lives every moment as a painter, even the ones spent outside the studio, as she is constantly looking for her next inspiration. She credits learning mindfulness with helping her to slow down and truly take in the details of her surrounding space. “I can see the meaning objects hold for me,” she says. Duke’s mindfulness allows her to see seemingly insignificant moments and objects and turn them into meaningful pieces of art.

When asked to select one word to describe herself as an artist, Duke fell silent, taking a minute to ponder the question. Eventually,

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she chose the first word that popped into her mind: aspiring. Duke explained that she doesn’t see herself as an aspiring artist, per se, but as an artist who is always impassioned to improve. “I am always aspiring to become a better painter, to learn new things.”

Aside from her own life and surroundings, Duke takes inspiration from the work of other artists she admires. One of the ways she continues to improve and continues to learn is by recreating works of art from some of her favorite artists. This process allows her to get into the mindset of these iconic artists, and really understand why they made the choices they did.

Duke has always been inspired by her favorite animal: horses. “I love horses,” she says. “When I was a little girl and started riding, I would always be sitting in the back of the class, drawing my horses.” This love for horses and recreating them in art has followed Duke through her career as a professional artist. Many of her paintings focus on the animal with colorful riders and jockeys. One of her artistic quests has been to further explore the motif of an equine painter.

Duke has another goal when it comes to art; to facilitate love and share her passion for art with others. She accomplishes this by teaching art at Wakefield School in The Plains. She instructs the youngest students of the lower school to the soon to be graduated seniors, and in each student she instills a new love and appreciation for the world of art. “I can’t imagine not teaching,” she says. “If I were only in the studio every day, I wouldn’t be as happy. Teaching is an opportunity for me to share what I love.”

Today, Duke continues to spend hours a day working in her studio. Her dedication to and love for art show no signs of stopping anytime soon. The community and her students will continue to enjoy and admire her creations, and hopefully be inspired to embark on artistic journeys of their own.

For more information on Teresa’s art, as well as information on commissions and where her work can be found, please visit teresaannduke.com. She may be contacted for business purposes at teresa.duke7@ gmail.com. ❖

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BREATHING PROBLEMS If your dog or cat appears to have any difficulty breathing they should be evaluated immediately. This is frequently caused by the following: Cats, like people, can be affected by asthma that requires immediate oxygen therapy.

Old large breed dogs that are exposed to heat or exertion can exacerbate degenerating laryngeal function and can present as if they are being choked. This condition is called laryngeal paralysis.

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Michael Soule, a support coordinator in aging services for RappahannockRapidan Community Services, was determined that something should and could be done to solve local seniors’ transportation problem. He found an office and phone line at the local Red Cross office; contributions from Aging Together, Fauquier Health, DSS and others funded outreach efforts. In 2007, Voltran offered its first rides to elderly and disabled Fauquier residents.

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Larry Stillwell, services. The grant Jean Lowe, Ed funded promotional Jones are three materials and publicity volunteers who to help recruit volunteers have assisted and spread awareness of in rejuvenating VolTran. the program’s services.

The new PATH Resource Center also guided VolTran organizers in building an effective and revitalized Board of Directors.

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Along with its geographically expanded mission, VolTran’s board of directors has added serving “others in serious need,” to its mission, since lack of transportation can be a major impediment to healthy living even for those who are neither elderly nor disabled. The expanded VolTran mission also recognizes that residents have serious needs other than medical appointments and prescriptions.

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VolTran hopes to find funding for a volunteer coordinator’s position soon.

McBride points to the new funding, new board members, and a new website (www.voltran.org) as signs that this fall’s volunteer recruitment is “just the beginning” of a rebirth of the program.

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(VolTran has insurance to supplement the driver’s.) Volunteers choose when to make themselves available for driving and where they are willing to go. The small nonprofit organization more than doubled the number of volunteer drivers on its roster recently, from four to nine, and may well add another half dozen before 2016 comes to a close.

McBride asks potential volunteers to see the VolTran website, call 540-2722306, or email contact@voltran.org to learn more. There are other ways people can help, too, she points out: VolTran needs local businesses to display VolTran signs and brochures so customers and their families will know about the program; it needs medical offices to inform their patients. And of course, tax-deductible donations are always welcome.

VolTran also has the use of a wheelchair-accessible van through Rappahannock-Rapidan Community Services. For this service, passengers are asked to provide VolTran least five days’ notice. Volunteers must have special training to drive the vehicle.

At a recent training event, current VolTran drivers described the satisfaction they feel when helping others and the rich relationships that have developed between them and their passengers. One of the new volunteers said that’s why she responded when she saw VolTran was recruiting. New to Fauquier County, Jennifer Ellis McIrvin said she was looking for a way to connect with local senior citizens. “I have two grandmothers in their 90’s, both of them very active, and I’ve always enjoyed being around them and other older people,” she explained.

New volunteer Judy Lohman described why she decided to volunteer: “I have some experience driving friends and neighbors to appointments and I was looking for an opportunity to give back – and this fills the bill.”

Voltran is hoping more people will feel the same way and take the opportunity to serve their community – one ride at a time. ❖

Volunteer driver, Rose Smith

Anyone needing a ride should call VolTran two days in advance at 540-422-8424 and leave a message that includes their contact information; the phone line is open for messages 24 hours a day and calls are always returned by 3:00 pm the following day. VolTran will return the call, collect information about the rider and the appointment, and then find a volunteer driver available on that date, assuming one is available. VolTran does not currently offer rides or respond to phone calls on weekends or holidays.

Lawrence Stillwell, M.Ed, is a writer, editor, educator and social worker involved with several local nonprofits. He was the founding editor of the Partnership for Community Resource’s Community Resource Guide and has served on the board of directors for the Fauquier Free Clinic, VolTran, and the Fauquier Community Coalition. He lives in Opal.

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died. While she had been ill, her death was unexpected. My father, a totally disabled World War I veteran and I, an only child, found ourselves on our own. I learned to cook; I learned to sew; the end of one lifestyle led to the beginning of another.

Upon my graduation from high school my father and I moved to New York City to live with his parents where the job opportunity was greater. An end had led to another beginning. School had ended and it was time for my world of work to begin. After a few months of odd jobs, my uncle who knew someone in the largest advertising agency in the world gave me a marvelous lead. What I learned here in those tender years was that while we often believe we have moved upward through our own efforts, success often comes through the proper contacts. So this was another beginning which lasted until it came to a sudden end due to our entry into World War II. If ever there was a huge beginning, this was it. I no longer lived at home; I lived only with men; I wore the same color clothes each day; I was issued a rifle; and I was aware that the end of this particular beginning might be death.

But approximately four years later I found myself still alive and back at home in civilian clothes. Every beginning has an end but this beginning had a happy end.

Keeping in mind the ancient expression that “one goes off to war as a boy and comes back a man,” with my new mature character I used the GI Bill to begin my new identity as a college student. The conclusion, a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology becoming the entry into my first post war occupation as

EACH END IS A BEGINNING

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Everything disappears? Well, no. People who were on vacation get back to work.

Children start school. To folks who live off the land, it’s harvest time. So looking at it from another perspective, Labor Day is starting life again.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end. And so it has been for my entire life. As an elementary school pupil I looked forward toward a similar lifestyle throughout my growing up years. Suddenly, while I was only nine years old, my mother

an Executive with the Boy Scouts of America. Thirteen years in this career gave me the knowledge (the beginning, if you will) needed to accept a position as Director of Public Relations for the New York State Department of Education.

Now I was on my way – a high level position in one of the most (if not the most) important agencies in a highly respected state. Now it appeared that the only end to this beginning would be retirement.

Life had other plans. It was 1972, a recession hit, and as I did not have the required three years in this occupation, I was bumped. It was an end but not the end I had planned.

Every end leads to another beginning. Sometimes luck is involved. Luck has been described as opportunity accompanied by preparedness. For most of my life in the back of my mind had been the intention to get a higher degree.

In that sense I was prepared. While working in the Department of Education I had met a professor in the State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany. He was willing to sponsor me and instead of looking for another job, I registered at SUNY as a new student. My unexpected end had become a new beginning which led me after seven years toward having both a Master’s Degree and a Ph.D. in Psychology, the end so to speak.

My doctorate led me ultimately to my 25 years as a Clinical Psychologist from which I have just retired. Is that the end? My life’s experiences tell me differently.

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arc Van der Rest grew up on a 6,000-acre family estate in the farming village of Eston, South Africa, less than 400 miles from Johannesburg on the eastern coast of the country. The working farm processed sugar cane and also had horses for recreational purposes, mainly polocrosse, a combination of polo and lacrosse. The popular sport was played by Marc with his cousins who all lived on the estate. Growing up around horses, led Marc to a lifetime that would center around the majestic animal.

After graduating high school, Marc spent two years with the South African police force. From there he returned to his passion for horses and was in a farrier apprenticeship for three years.

It was following the apprenticeship that Marc answered a call for adventure and purchased a one-year open-ended airfare ticket.

“All South Africans are known to be travelers at heart. We all seem to be born with a sense of adventure,” he explains. His first stop was Tel Aviv, Israel to learn about the community farming practice of “kibbutz”, which means “gathering or clustering” in Hebrew. He then travelled east to England where he worked on a polo

farm. “While I was travelling I would work any job to earn some money. I was a bartender, I did trash pick-up, washed dishes, worked in a hotel… anything to earn some money,” he recalls.

He stayed in England for three months and then journeyed stateside to Montana where his cousin taught dressage, a form of show where the rider and horse perform a series of moves from memory. While in Montana, Marc travelled the Western

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After six months, he ventured back to Europe and spent the remaining half of the year travelling the continent before returning to South Africa. Upon returning home, Marc spoke with his friend and fellow farrier, Derek Poupard, who encourage him to return to the United States, “Derek told me that if I really wanted to pursue being a farrier, I needed to come to the U.S. because we are known for our science behind horses and have advanced shoeing techniques.” Within two months, Marc was settled in Danville, Virginia and enrolled in a three-month horseshoeing school.

With several years’ worth of farrier experience, thanks to his prior apprenticeship, the instructor recognized Marc’s talent and took him under his wing. When school was over, the instructor lined Marc up with a well-known mentor who he stayed with in Danville for three years until he received a call from his old friend, Derek. His friend announced that he would be relocating to the United States with his family and settling in Middleburg, VA. Derek had connected with a local veterinarian in Middleburg

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His “office” is a trailer hitched to his truck. It provides everything he needs to care for a horse with both manufactured shoes and iron bars that he can mold into a shoe with a gas forge. “Making a shoe on a forge is rough on the body. We do make them for horses with a particular sort of lameness or therapeutic reasons, but the quality of the manufactured shoes is hard to beat,” he explains.

The exactness of the shoe required for a horse depends on the horse’s job, “It’s my job to make sure the horse has the right shoe so they can do their job,” says Marc. Shoes are used for protection, movement, and support. A shoe can change the horse’s gait, for example a heavier shoe will make the horse use its knees more resulting in a more animated walk. Climate also plays a role in shoeing, “A farrier in Seattle will shoe a horse very differently because of the amount of rainfall they receive. Their hooves are wider. In the West, horse hooves are more narrow and brittle as a result of the dry climate.”

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Over the course of the next several months, Marc made weekly trips to the Piedmont region to help his friend and eventually decided to make the move permanent. The two became a team.

Unfortunately, in 2003, Derek and his family left the United States. Derek was able to sell the businesses to a farrier from Arizona, but within a few months, the business folded, leaving Marc with more clients he could care for and little help. Undaunted by the challenge, he began hiring apprentices to help with client demands and over the course of the next 13 years, Marc made the business his own. Meanwhile, Derek, who makes frequent trips back to the United States to visit his friend, is currently living in Dubai caring for a Sheik’s horses.

To an onlooker, a farrier is simply a man or woman trimming a hoof and replacing the shoe. But the technology and science are far beyond that casual observation. Marc focuses on show horses: dressage, hunter jumpers, and a handful of quarter horses. He will also shoe show ponies for children. Each horse requires shoeing as often as every four weeks during which time hoofs will grow an average of ¼”. As a result of diet and exercise, this can increase in the summertime months. In the winter, hoof growth slows as the horse’s energy is transferred from hoof growth to hair growth in preparation for the colder months. Each horse can take a farrier up to an hour to care for, depending on the need. Marc is so familiar with his clients’ horses that he can recognize a horse by its feet before seeing its head. In the summer, Marc can spend a 12-hour day at a single barn or make as many as three client visits. He laughs when he recalls the horses he worked on when he was young, “As a young apprentice, the mentor will often give you the horses no one wants to work on. The ones that

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“We’re always striving to provide innovative programs that motivate our members to remain physically active and help them achieve the best outcomes possible,” says Denise DeCarlo, an exercise physiologist and personal trainer at the Fauquier Health Wellness Center. “We are really excited about Healthy Steps because it is an internationally recognized program that addresses the whole person - mind, body and spirit. It’s appropriate for all fitness levels, easy to do and fun. We think anyone

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iking and backpacking are exciting outdoor activities that without a doubt not only bring us closer to nature, but also hold the promise of adventure and new experiences. Yet the differences between the two are distinct despite many similarities.

Hiking means walking mainly on well designated nature trails for the pure pleasure it provides and rarely needs more than a pair of hiking boots, a rain jacket, some water and a snack. Backpacking with the idea of camping overnight involves the study of maps, detailed preparations for a stay in the wilderness, and the ability to carry 25 to 35 pounds on one’s back.

The goal of day hikes at Boots ’n Beer is to enjoy getting out in nature with the camaraderie of others, to get a solid workout, and to revel in banter and laughter while rewarding ourselves at the end with a cool draft beer in a neighborhood tavern.

Our Boots ‘n Beer backpacking excursions, on the other hand, involve more detailed planning and preparation, venturing farther out into the wilderness, pitching camp and eating. And when returning home, cleaning and restoring the equipment.

Backpacking is considerably a more grounding and deeper experience. It tests not only one’s independence and self reliance but also the ability to work together. Whether hiking or backpacking, John Muir said it best: “In every walk with Nature one receives far more than one seeks.” And so it was with our latest Boots ’n Beer three day backpacking trip, which took us deep into the wilderness of West Virginia.

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“Hiking and backpacking are exciting outdoor activities that without a doubt not only bring us closer to nature, but also hold the promise of adventure and new experiences.”

Dolly Sods Wilderness in West Virginia Dolly Sods Wilderness is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful places in West Virginia. It’s an area of high elevation of windswept plains. It is located on the Allegheny Plateau is known for its extensive glacier shaped rock formations, upland bogs and sweeping vistas. With crooked and stunted trees, huckleberry bushes and ferns, its climate and plant life resembles that of Canada. Dolly Sods is like a unique island of wild country surrounded by Appalachian hardwood forests.

Once the home to vast forests of massive spruce and hemlock trees, between 1899 and 1924 the entire forest was logged, which makes the area susceptible to wildfires to this day. During World War II this plateau was used for artillery and mortar training, and in 1975 Congress designated close to 18,000 acres as protected wilderness.

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Mapping Out The Trails And Hiking The Map With close to 50 miles of a variety of trails of single track, old logging roads and railroad grades, the generally well marked paths meander in quiet solitude through the ever changing landscape and often vanish amongst roots, rocks and bogs.

This happened to us two years ago on a Boots ‘n Beer day hike in Dolly Sods. The trail simply disappeared on us, and we had to bushwhack for three hours against diminishing daylight to find our way back to the trailhead.

But our hiking group was lucky on this trip. We never went off trail once, due in large part to our hiking buddy, Cooper Wright. He had studied the maps and planned out two hikes with exit routes in case of an emergency.

Cooper’s Detailed Hiking Plan The beginning of our hike, however, threw us a surprise. After a three hour drive from Warrenton to the North Section trailhead, we discovered that the South Section was closed due to wildfire prevention. Plan B came to our rescue, and we would approach Dolly Sods from the South Section trailhead. This put us an hour and a half behind schedule, starting around five in the evening. Our goal was to pitch camp before nightfall which we were able to accomplish. The weather forecast promised us a clear and mild night.

Because of the wildfire warnings, we could not light a campfire so we all crawled into our tents in the hope of a good night’s sleep. Despite the Boy Scouts’ motto

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“Be Prepared” some of us were not. The temperature dropped unexpectedly into the mid 30’s, and I, for one, was shivering through the night under my summer quilt.

Breaking camp early in the morning helped get our cold stiff bones ready for the day’s hike.

With 11 miles to go through rolling landscapes, we wanted to strike camp before a bad weather front moved in on us. By three o’clock in the afternoon we established camp and prepared dinner. By six o’clock that evening the temperature turned pleasantly warm and a light rain began to fall. As darkness fell, all of us were in our tents and falling asleep to the steady drums of raindrops coming down faster and heavier. It was actually a most agreeable way to fall into a deep and sound sleep.

The witching hour arrived with low rumblings of thunder while rain poured heavily and lightning flared in muted colors through the tent wall. Now fully awake, I had hoped that the rain would have stopped so that the morning would provide us with a clear and crisp start as we hiked home to the trailhead. It was not to be.

The storm moved closer and closer and unloaded its full fury on us. My quilt accumulated a fine mist of water droplets, and rain seeped into the bathtub of my tent because I had pitched it in a slight dell. That’s when you learn to balance on a 20-inch wide mattress without moving and just let the soothing lullaby of the falling rain take you back to sleep.

At daybreak we gathered in the rain around some tree trunks and enjoyed a first cup of coffee before breaking camp. We were in a cheerful mood, for surprisingly we had all slept well. John Hagarty reminded us that one cannot spend two days in Dolly Sods without having a downpour and walking in wet trails.

The joy of backpacking is perhaps best encapsulated in the Boots ’n Beer maxim “There is no bad weather, just bad equipment.” The rain followed us to the end of the trail where we met a group of backpackers hailing from Florida, Illinois and Kentucky. They were ready to start their three day hike in the Dolly Sods Wilderness. As our tents and backpacks were drying out at home, they reminded us of our three day experience of hiking in intermittent rain!

But our greatest take-away was that we all felt fortunate and grateful to have enjoyed the great variety of everything Dolly Sods had to offer - clear blue sky, sunshine, unusual rock formations, deep green forests, dark grey hanging clouds, rain and wet trails, starry nights, and the rare camaraderie and friendship of shared adventure and experiences. ❖

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Birds receive stimulation and enjoy time outside of their enclosure, it is important to do so responsibly. Pets can have fatal accidents by falling onto heaters or into toilets, which is why time roaming should be supervised.

and cleaning products should be used carefully. Either ensure your pet is removed from a given area or do your homework and eliminate certain household hazards. Simple things like smoke from burnt food can lead to respiratory issues.

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Good to Know About Birds Birds are messy - so if a tidy home and cleanliness is your top priority, then it may not be a good match for your lifestyle. Birds will toss their food from their bowls, shed feathers, scatter bedding, and excrete while hanging from their cage bars … resulting in more mess.

Birds can also be extremely vocal, so if you are sound sensitive or easily frustrated by loud, high-pitched noises, then make sure you pick a species that is less verbal. This may also be an issue for people living with neighbors in an apartment complex. Some birds provide song, whereas others can be taught tunes, sound clips, and words. Pick your pet bird wisely.

Birds make excellent family pets, although they require special care, enclosures, and conditions in order to thrive. There are many species specific bird clubs to learn more about the different variety of pets. Acquisition can be through a bird rescue, breeders, and specialty pet stores. Look for a lively, bright, and social bird when making a selection and consider consulting with a specialty veterinarian to further discuss your bird’s individual needs. ❖

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