28.
My friend John, whom I know from Saint John's College, told me that he saw his first lightning bug THIS YEAR. At age 28. To think a person went 28 years before seeing a firefly, to imagine the joy of seeing the simple beauty of the lightning bug for the first time as an adult, and to see it in such a lovely place as he: the Berkshires, the Berkshires in the summer, flashing.
Discovery is amazing.

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