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- ID
- b251
- Title
- "The Butterfly."
- Genre
- Story
- Page Count
- 9
- Word Count
- 2250
- Publisher
- Evening News
- Publication Year
- 1952
- Topics
- Boyhood, Fathers
A boy, tended in England by a governess and visited by his parents (who live in Asia) only in the summers, talks with his father over breakfast; the reader deduces that the mother has left her husband for another man.
In the Evening News (November 27, 1952), The Watercress Girl and Other Stories (1959), A Month by the Lake & Other Stories (1987).
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