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Mary Schmich: A goose lays eggs on a woman's roof. What's she supposed to do?

CHICAGO - Three weeks ago, Jennifer Baron opened the door to her fourth-floor rooftop on Chicago's Northwest Side and confronted something odd in her big strawberry pot.

A goose.

With a hiss, the goose stood up and flapped its wings, revealing something else in the pot.

"Oh, look," Baron thought. "Six eggs."

Six little goslings-to-be that would soon be stranded high above the big city. On her roof.

"This is the last thing I need," she thought. "I'm a busy Realtor. I'm trying

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