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"Today Preston comes on the bus, and I know you are a nice lady here"

"Well, thank you You all can go up there and look at the butterflies any day you want to No charge That lady you talked to doesn’t own theirl translated, and they all smiled Dellarobia wondered if they , so it’s not a good tio later this week, if you want Could I get a phone nu pad and handed it to the little girl, who handed it to her father with instructions He removed a pencil from his pocket, wrote a phone nuits, local area code, but the tidy nu He crossed his sevens, like t’s

"So," she said, folding the paper in quarters "You’ve already seen this, back where you coether?"

"In Michoacán irl ar a little breathlessly "He takes the peoples on horses in the forest to see thethe s for the, for the científicos And my mother makes tamales for the lot of peoples"

Dellarobia cupped Preston’s head gently in her hand, turning his face upward "Did you all talk about this at school? The butterflies?"

"Miss Rose said so to Miss Hunt, but not to us," he said "Josefina asked me if I ever saw the butterflies before, because she did She said they lanced fro as usual as if he feared he had done so "That’s why I wanted to see them too"

"Shoot! I can’t believe this," Dellarobia said, hardly knohere to start with her questions "Do you have these butterflies all the time in Mexico? Or do they just show up soirl said "In su the flowers, she flies to here to your country And in winter she all coueo My town Every year the sa"

"And that’s how your parentswith the butterflies, and the people co to see them?"

"They come, they did came" Josefina paused a moment, her eyes fixed on the middle distance while she worked out words in her mind "The peoples came from every places Every countries"

"You mean tourists from all over the world? Like how many were there, a hundred?" She wondered whether a child so young could possibly know the difference between dozens and hundreds

"Thousands of peoples One hundred millions butterflies" That answered that

"How do you kno irl looked a little annoyed "My father is a guía I help hi the horses"

"You can ride a horse?" Preston asked in a reverent whisper Heof the Powerpuff Girls

"If you don’t , why didn’t you stay there?" Dellarobia asked

"No one"