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As a child growing up in a small Jewish communityin the Ukraine, Aaron Kandels grandmother survivedbrutal attacks by the Russian Czar's soldiers known as the Cossacks. Many years after leaving her childhood home, she remembers those traumatic events. In this story, Aaron, finds a pigeon with a broken wing. After nursing it back to health, he plans to give it to his grandmother for her birthday in hopes of easing some of that pain. Later, amidst pressure from a neighborhood gang that pretends to want the pigeon as a mascot, he finds himself torn between his desire to surprise his grandmother and his desire to belong. Finally he chooses to disobey his parents and join the gang. However, during his initiation, he learns of their real plans to kill the pigeon and fights to save the bird. Beaten and disillusioned, he tells his parents and grandmother the truth. It is then that he realizes that restoring the bird's freedom was the real gift to his grandmother.

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