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They were butterflies, just butterflies. To Daphne, that’s all they were.All those flimsy name tags were quickly snipped off and flicked away. They fluttered through the air to join others on a heap like all the butterflies she used to watch when she was a girl, exhausted and carpeting the banks of the stream behind her house in late summer, only to be swept away by wind and rain. She never read the names. Butterflies didn’t have names. As soon as the next garment landed on her table, a snip and a flick sent another butterfly to land on the ...
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She was a farmer’s daughter who earned her grade eleven diploma in one-room country schoolhouse just up the road from the farm. So, she was not prepared for the call that came that morning.After her husband had left for work at the factory and both her young sons were out the door, the phone rang. It was the school. This could not be good news.“Mrs. M., we’re calling to ask for your help. Our First Grade teacher, Mrs. Lamarche, is sick today and we’d like you to come and watch her class.”Relief gave way to shock. Her boys were not in trouble...
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