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    How does one become a butterfly?' she asked pensively.'You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.''You mean to die?' asked Yellow, remembering the three who fell out of the sky.'Yes and No,' he answered.'What looks like you will die, but what's really you will still live.

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    How does one become a butterfly? They have to want to learn to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.

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    ‎"Tell me, sir, what is a butterfly?""It's what you are meant to become. It flies with beautiful wings and joins the earth to heaven. It drinks only nectar from the flowers and carries the seeds of love from one flower to another. Without butterflies, the world would soon have few flowers.

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    We can fly!“We can become butterflies!“There’s nothing at the topand it doesn’t matter!”As he heard his ownmessage he realized howhe had misread the instinctto get high.To get to the “top” hemust fly, not climb.

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    Yellow decided to risk for a butterfly.For courage she hung right beside the other cocoon and began to spin her own.'Imagine, I didn't even know I could do this. That's some encouragement that i'mon the right track. If I have the stuff inside me to make cocoons—maybe the stuff of butterflies is there too.

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    It takes lot of butterflies to make a world full of flowers.

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    We were a religious, practicing, Catholic family - Mass together on Sunday, Catholic schools, and parents who practiced everything they preached. A great gift was their total absence of any derogatory talk about people of any race or culture and we were on a street of many faiths, though no other races at that early time.

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