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SmileAwhileNews:
Today, with much joy and little fanfare, the eminent demise of the Gypsy Moth has come to pass. Mothos de Gypsy has met Terminus Maximus! The Day Lilly in the picture shall ever remind us how close we came to a resurgence of the Blightning Pestilence that has forever marked our calendars, (somewhere in the 1980's I think. I was in Oklahoma). It was but a mere 3 or 4 days ago my Grandson Onyx and I were given a sign that this, The Day of the Lilly, would come. And, so it has. A fungus has never smelled so sweet!