Personal memory by Byron Garcia
2016 • Winter Park, FL, USA
Today I was walking into my porch, as I had just gotten back from the University and I noticed something I hadn't seen in I would say a year or two. I saw something so pretty, so innocent, a creature that not only makes a scene that much prettier but, this creature itself is the beauty behind such scene. I saw a butterfly. I haven't run across a butterfly for so long, that for a moment I had thought that they were extinct. This to me was the highlight of my day. I couldn't believe my eyes, because just as I was admiring such beauty; the butterfly landed right on my doorknob just as I was about to go in. I knew that butterfly had a meaning today and I knew I was meant to see that butterfly.
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