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My two sweethearts--Caillou, a 3 year old female Dusky Lory and Elmo, a 10 year old male Red Lory. What a pair! Caillou is a study in perpetual motion. She plays so hard that she'll fall asleep in my lap in the late afternoon. She does somersaults and all kinds of gymnastics, dances and sings, follows Elmo around like any human baby sister. She does sneezes and chants "apple" and "stop it!!" Elmo likes to play catch (he'll throw atoy to you and yell "you get it !" He has a huge vocabulary, also sneezes and does a smoker's cough. He dotes on Caillou and is fiercely protective of her. When I'm sad, it's such comfort to have him on my shoulder, have him rub his soft red head against my cheek, look into his dark eyes and hear him croak "I love you!". Yeah, Lories are messy, and they're kooky, but they're wonderful friends and dear companions. I love mine to pieces. Marion