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Read this summary of the text and the directions that follow. In a market in Kowloon, China, there is a swallow in a cage. A young girl buys the swallow from the man who caught it, and she promises to care for the bird. Later, a man who has just finished working sees the swallow and thinks it would be the perfect present for his ill daughter, who is resting at home. The swallow and the girl seem to connect with each other, and she promises to care for it. She decides to set the swallow free. The swallow then flies by the girl's window every night to visit her, A key event is missing from the summary. Click the paragraph of text that includes the missing event. When a young girl stops to look at the slippers, the boy sees a caged bird at her side. The swallow blinks at him from the corner of the cage. The boy trades a pair of his mother's best brocade slippers for the swallow and lifts the cage to look at the bird. "I promise to take care of you, little bird," the boy murmurs. The cliff swallow coos, "How I would like to fly under the rice moon!" But the boy does not understand. He puts the cage to one side as a man stops at the market stand to look at the rows of brocade slippers​

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The missing event is: The boy trades a pair of his mother's best brocade slippers for the swallow and lifts the cage to look at the bird.

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