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Suddenly, there was an owl in my path. At first I thought it was a groundhog — something hunched and still, low to the earth the way animals get when they're waiting. Then it turned and looked at me over its shoulder. White face. Brown-ringed. Amber eyes that didn't look through me so much as into me, with the particular patience of something that already knew what it was looking at. I did not forget that face. Next, I heard it. Ten days later, late in the evening, came three