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Good morning!
It’s Friday, and I’ve already made a new friend. Her name is Cacyreus Marshall, and she’s a geranium bronze butterfly—or, as they call it here, brun des pélargoniums. She’s tiny, about the size of a thimble. Apparently her family first visited Europe from South Africa in the late 1900s. They loved it so much that they decided to stay.
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