JIM STINGL; IN MY OPINION Woman won't cast bird's fate to the wind

From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Date: February 16, 2005| Author: JIM STINGL | Copyright information

Woman won't cast bird's fate to the wind

Homing pigeons. Their name alone suggests they're not supposed to get lost.

You let them go. They fly home. It's what they do.

Not always, as it turns out.

Dolores Sizer is harboring a lost homing pigeon at her Greenfield home right now. She figured out that it belongs to a man in Illinois, but she dislikes his idea for getting it back to him after it's been lost four months.

Toss it to the wind, he says.

"I am ...

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