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The Butterfly and the Moth

NPR | By Geoffrey Grosshans
Published April 22, 2005 at 12:00 AM EDT

As testimony to the inexplicable, irresistible power of love, commentator Geoffrey Grosshans offers the following romantic fable from the natural kingdom.

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Geoffrey Grosshans

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