'Cranes, symbols of love, please forgive us,' Hikmet
said quietly. Then he looked at us. 'Cranes are very loving
birds,' he said, 'and the male and the female stay together
all their lives. Cranes always live in warm places, but when
a crane dies, its mate goes to a cold snowy place. Then it
dies in the snow, and nobody can eat it. People do not eat
birds that die in this way. And hunters never shoot cranes
because they know all these things.'
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