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The butterfly emerges into the light.
A myriad of colours so bright, it takes flight then lands upon a flower.
Now camouflaged by the leaves, it rests awhile and surveys the land.
It has been in the dark for so long it finds this new world daunting.
Unused to the sights and sounds it sees, it wants to go back to the dark.
But then it remembers how it struggled so hard to get to where it is now.
How it thought it would not survive.
The butterfly is a symbol of hope and the will to stay alive.
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