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BUG: Series.str.find with negative start produces unexpected results for arrow strings #56411

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Reproducible Example

>>> ser.str.find(sub="b", start=-1000, end=3)
0    1004
1    <NA>
dtype: int64[pyarrow]
>>>

Issue Description

1004 for the first row is unexpected, expected result is 1.

Expected Behavior

>>> ser = pd.Series(["abc", None], dtype=pd.StringDtype())
>>> ser.str.find(sub="b", start=-1000, end=3)
0       1
1    <NA>
dtype: Int64
>>>

I expect arrow types to produce the same result produced by pd.StringDtype()

Installed Versions

INSTALLED VERSIONS

commit : a60ad39
python : 3.11.4.final.0
python-bits : 64
OS : Windows
OS-release : 10
Version : 10.0.22631
machine : AMD64
processor : Intel64 Family 6 Model 151 Stepping 2, GenuineIntel
byteorder : little
LC_ALL : None
LANG : None
LOCALE : English_United States.1252

pandas : 2.1.2
numpy : 1.26.2
pytz : 2023.3.post1
dateutil : 2.8.2
setuptools : 68.2.2
pip : 23.3.1
Cython : None
pytest : 7.0.1
hypothesis : None
sphinx : 4.2.0
blosc : None
feather : None
xlsxwriter : None
lxml.etree : None
html5lib : None
pymysql : None
psycopg2 : None
jinja2 : 3.1.2
IPython : 8.17.2
pandas_datareader : None
bs4 : 4.12.2
bottleneck : None
dataframe-api-compat: None
fastparquet : None
fsspec : None
gcsfs : None
matplotlib : None
numba : None
numexpr : None
odfpy : None
openpyxl : None
pandas_gbq : None
pyarrow : 14.0.0
pyreadstat : None
pyxlsb : None
s3fs : None
scipy : None
sqlalchemy : None
tables : None
tabulate : 0.9.0
xarray : None
xlrd : None
zstandard : None
tzdata : 2023.3
qtpy : None
pyqt5 : None

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