# How to ignore someone long-term

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**Created:** [April 20, 2021, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-ignore-someone-long-term/940352 "2021-04-20T03:57:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2021, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-ignore-someone-long-term/940352/64 "2021-04-27T19:24:19Z")

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Here is her (and her sister’s) story of how I raised them from eggs.

> [@And my budgie flock doubles in size!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-my-budgie-flock-doubles-in-size/773292):
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> For the last year or so my female budgie has been laying eggs. It’s dangerous for them to constantly lay eggs so about 6 months ago I figured out the combination to get her to stop laying - high quality fake eggs and a budgie nesting box. When I first got everything set up a way she liked, she sat on the fake eggs and stopped laying her own. She sat on the nest for about three months and then abandoned it for two weeks and then started laying again. When she’d lay an egg, I’d replace it with th…

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