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Good morning!
It’s Monday, and the milkweed is preparing to set sail.
“Not that we didn’t love your garden,” they told me. “But there’s such a great big world out there, it seems a shame not to explore it, don’t you think?”
I said I agreed.
Then, in a whisper so quiet I had to lean in to hear it, they asked, “Why don’t you explore it too?”
“What, now?” I …