Men come and go. That's not what I intend; it just happens. Parrots are forever. I don't plan to spend my life fighting loss and feelings of inadequacy, and searching for the human love of my life. That just happens, too. I don't expect to bring home a wild-caught parrot for a pet, either, until Peaches wins me over. In my efficiency apartment in Los Alamos, New Mexico, he falls in love with a raven and is evacuated during a fire. When boyfriend Perry...