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                                                                                      The Butterflies

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                                                                                      …And those Butterflies!  Their kiss is like the ecstatic blending of two exquisite perfumes.  Daintily humanized bodies just out of the spirit state, wings of lingering dreams, faces as though one caught an angel’s smile and lips, lips so small one wonders whether or not they are a mental complement of all the other rapturous beauties!  (Reprinted from Louis Rosenthal, Sculptor)

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