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''I was born in a deep, dark burrow that mum and dad worked together to dig many years ago. No other puffin dared to come into our burrow.''
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''I was very happy growing up. Mum and dad looked after me very well. I was never hungry, so I quickly grew out of my down.''
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''Around this time I experienced the first great sorrow of my life. My mother told me that I was now so grown up I would have to look after myself''
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''I didn’t dare go out until it was starting to get dark. Mum had warned me about all sorts of fierce, predatory birds, that would eat little pufflings if they caught them!''
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''I saw myself reflected in the glass and didn’t realise who it was at first! In one window I saw many birds. They stood motionless like fossils and didn’t answer my calls...''