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While the boys helped Margaret finish washing the dinner dishes, the cicadas' humming seeped into the house. Teddy and Tem heard their call and headed outside to take in the last sunlight and the faint beginning of the night sky.
Flashes of fireflies leaped and dived in the distance, and the boys ran off to capture these alluring beings. They remembered summers past, where they had not only captured the pulsing creatures but also disassembled them to form rings of fire. This year they better understood that these creatures had lives of their own and that removing parts of these unusual beetle's bodies for their pleasure was something to no longer practice. Given what had happened earlier that day, Teddy couldn't help but see in the periodic glowing of the fireflies the dimming of K
