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Sundays are always free

Wednesday · themeless · September 23

The one that lets it go into the wild

There is a two-word phrase in this grid for setting a creature free, opening the hand and letting it return to where it belongs. I have done this with beetles, with a very indignant frog, and once with a moth the size of a small bird. The children always want to keep it. The keeping is never the good part. The letting go is.

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