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"Not true!" Juliet said "Woodcutters in Michoacán knew"

"Outside of a e in Michoacán," Ovid corrected, "no one knehere And inside that range, no one knehere they suht they came there to die"

"With my wife’s permission, I will put it this way At the tiration was unknown to humanity"

"When did they find it out?" Preston asked

The answer, to Dellarobia’s astonishment, ithin Ovid’s lifetime He had been just a bit older than Preston when the discovery was announced in the National Geographic, in 1976 A Canadian scientist chased thethat would stick to butterfly wings, recruiting volunteers to help track the the trail many tis, he climbed a mountain in Michoacán to see what must have looked like his dream of heaven Dellarobia listened to all this while she finished scraping the roast pan and craerator Ovid could still quote passages of the article froions He said he remembered exactly where he hen he read that article, and how he felt She left the dishes in the sink and sat back down

"Where were you?"

"Outside the post office, sitting on a lobster crate I spent a lot of Saturdays there My azines before they went to their subscribers I was so excited by the photos in that article, I ran all the way down Crown Street, all the way to West End and out a sandy road called Fortuna to the sea I must have picked up a stick so every branch I passed, leaving a trail of flying leaves When I got to the sea I didn’t knohat to do, so I threw the stick in Perseverance Bay and ran back It was the happiest day of my life"

Dellarobia wanted, of course, to knohy

"Why," he repeated, thinking about it "I was just like any schoolboy I thought everything in the world was already discovered Already in my books A lot of dead stuff that put me to sleep That was the day I understood the world is still living"

Juliet reached across the table to pour an inch of Riesling in everyone’s glass Ovid tapped the yellow voluet rewritten every year, Preston So out of diapause," Dellarobia thought to announce

"We saw the their family life," Preston said "In the road"

"Really," Ovid said, with convincing enthusiasm But Juliet revealed that he already knew, he’d noticed it first thing when they drove in thisShe claimed he washis wife