Butterfly Kindness

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One day, several years ago, I was up on a mountain on a warm, sunny September day.  

A butterfly came to visit me. It landed on me, stayed on or around me for a couple of hours.  

While the butterfly was visiting, two other people came to talk with me.  The butterfly visited with them too.  

This was a difficult period of life for me.  I experienced the butterfly visit as a brief act of kindness, a good deed done by the butterfly.

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