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"Do you ever think ill happen when all this goes away?" she asked Hester

"You mean the people or the butterflies or what?"

Dellarobia wasn’t sure what she’dto her previous self The person who’d lit out one day to shed an existence that felt about the size of one of those plastic eggs that pantyhose came in From that day on, week by week, the size of her life had doubled out The question was how to refold all that back into one package, size zero "The butterflies ht die," she said finally "That’s out of our hands But , what if?"

It struck her now that probably it would happen, the folding back in She was no longer world-famous or a national event As of late, she wasn’t even all that town-faot so quickly, or moved on Her influence, if any, was now lie That was about the size of it She could easily end up back where all this started, launching her heart on so back to those logging et settled," Hester said

"How do you le, after the service"

"Toround Sunday next"

Dinner on the ground meant a potluck meal after church, not necessarily on blankets outdoors if the weather was bad The fellowship hall had tables "Who’s we?"

"Anybody in the fareed to this?"

Hester didn’t answer directly "Our place has been raised up by this," she said

"You could do a lot, if they came back You know Lupe, that keeps my kids?"

No answer ca Hester knew very ho Lupe was Dellarobia persisted "She and her husband used to do this kind of business in Mexico They say it’s better to keep people back from the roost site and take theram for people, and they’ll behave"

Hester see to ask Rick Baker at the insurance Horses I expect he’d say no to that"

"Well, you’d have to get soe an adh in it to hire soet "

"Says who?"

Dellarobia didn’t answer that Who else? "It’s so to junk up the air will pay you to keep standing trees, to clean it back out"

"Pie in the sky," Hester said "Sounds like"

"Well, it is that," Dellarobia said, s over Hester "It pertains to the sky"

They were stopped by a fallen tree that lay at a slant across the trail Hester left Dellarobia on the trail and walked twenty paces to the tree’s lower end and sat down on it, facing back the way they’d co up her pack of Cahts like a flash card "You quit, didn’t you?"

"Lead us not into te her eyes