Gone

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An honest and beautiful guide for curious children about life's biggest mystery.

My fluttering, chirping, hopping bird was gone.
Its body was still there, a silent, feathery shape, but all life had left it.

Long or short, every life on earth comes to an end some day.
But what happens when we die?