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The hill I will die on: Pigeons are working-class heroes and deserve some respect
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If it makes you feel any better, the continued existence and proliferation of the pigeon means that some part of the contract was extended indefinitely.
Unlike the passenger pigeon, which was hunted to extinction over a hundred years ago!