Missing Butterflies
Personal memory by Robin McGibbon
1959
I have noticed that it has been about 40 years now since I have seen the little copper butterflies that used to completely cover the flowers on the hedges in our neighborhood when I was a child. We could catch them by the dozens and then release them all at once. It seemed they were everywhere in Toronto at the time.
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