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    僕はペット鳥である

    ■訳：ムシフミuser/240758 »■この作品は数年前、鳥インフルエンザが流行している時、私が直接な想像で、事実の理屈も関わらず、自分の最も怖がっていることと、忘れられない気持ちを描いたものでした。

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    Pingchan1
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    I'm waiting for this whole story to be translated, but it seems to be a retelling of the Avian Flu epidemic.
    To control its spreading, they had to collect dead birds and burn them.
    And to reply to DugFin, I am sure Japan has lots of people who own/owned pet birds, and most of them loved their birds I am sure, but to put the story of your bird into a touching retelling like this...
    your birds memory will live forever.

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    Amoriderefarfalla
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    Pingchan1 said:

    I'm waiting for this whole story to be translated, but it seems to be a retelling of the Avian Flu epidemic.
    To control its spreading, they had to collect dead birds and burn them.
    And to reply to DugFin, I am sure Japan has lots of people who own/owned pet birds, and most of them loved their birds I am sure, but to put the story of your bird into a touching retelling like this...
    your birds memory will live forever.

    Drakus said:

    ^ Not true. Notice that the old man's bird (among others) are in the pile, though they never "flew free". It's quite a sad story. =(

    Actually, the artist is from Taiwan (as was stated on his/her deviantArt page), where the disease had spread to during this period and, being this is true story, though not too sure about Japan's situation in this but it is more than likely to be the same, as an effort to protect the populace, they had almost every pet bird in cities across the country euthanized (as was displayed two pages before), should they be infected or not or whether or not they even got out. It's heartbreaking really.

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