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It was said that if someone in love stood on the balcony in the moonlight, the #scales would fall from their eyes & they'd see their beloved as they truly were. This brought joy to some, heartbreak to others.

To Magdalena the maid it brought continual wonder at the sorts of scales that people shed, which she swept up the following mornings. Hard, translucent fish scales; opaque, patterned snake scales. And today, the fragile, bright scales that graced butterflies' wings.

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