Monarch Butterfly
Personal memory by George Heidekat
1975 • Pittsburgh
The Monarch butterfly: Long about the time I first read of its epic flight from my smoky, overcast home town to sunny Mexico and back, I realized that I'd started feeling lucky to see one specimen all summer long. Last summer, none in evidence.
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