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This is the story I am looking for. I was in elementary school when my father read it to me. I\u2019m afraid that it might have morphed some in my memory. It has stuck with me a long time. I\u2019m 65. So he would\u2019ve read it to me in the mid 60\u2019s. This story sounds vaguely similar to the Nightingale but I do not remember a mechanical bird in my story. It is tragic like the Brothers Grimm or Hans Christian Andersen stories. I do not have a title or an author.<\/p>\n
This story involves a bird that a man, maybe a king, is enamored of, either because of its beauty or its song. I don\u2019t remember which. The bird pleases the king so much that the king decorates it with jewels. It seemed like he thought he was was rewarding the bird. Giving it value. The bird can\u2019t fly, can\u2019t do bird things, is ostracized by its friends, becomes tragically lonely and dies of a broken heart. That\u2019s what I remember.<\/tt><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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