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Kate Duva is a storyteller, schoolmarm, dancer and performance poet from Chicago. One day while she was online researching poetry competitions, her husband walked in the door with a mourning dove in one hand and a nest in the other, and the work "Wings of a Boy" was born. For more from the Duva diaries, visit www.kateduva.blogspot.com.
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