Closing my eyes, I send a prayer of love and gratitude to the best friend a girl could have. You are the most remarkable dung beetle in the world, I say with a smile. The two of us have used the compliment for years, ever since we discovered that the insects are the strongest animals on the planet. I wish I could be here to see all the things you are going to do. I stop and think about it, trying to wrangle a vision of what her future might hold, but I cannot see it; too many possibilities exist. So instead I say, Soar, Mo, reach for the stars or the moon or another universe altogether, and
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