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"I'll take three," Leo said, his heart doing a little waddle of its own. But standing there, watching twenty fuzzy yellow clouds

"They’re a handful," the clerk chuckled. "Smart, messy, and they’ll think you’re their mother within ten minutes. You ready to be a dad to a bunch of feathered footballs?"