Fireflies
Personal memory by Hillary Hutchinson
1965 • Franklin County, OH, USA
Fireflies--when I was growing up and visted my grandparents farm in rural Ohio, the fireflies were so thick you could scoop hundreds into a jar in about a minute. Read that mud banks on creeks where they breed are disappearing due to human development--housing estates. I miss the fireflies.
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