Status Updates From Miss Benson's Beetle

"You're on the other side of the world. Who cares what people think? You can be what you want.”

[…] she was finally doing the thing she'd dreamed about as a child, the thing she'd given up on in her twenties, and deep inside she felt a leap of excitement because it was finally happening and she could hardly believe it. It was so easy to find yourself doing the things in life you weren't passionate about, to stick with them even when you didn't want them and they hurt.

Margery smiled. It wasn't that she had begun to like Enid. It was more that in that moment she had experienced the rare pleasure of liking herself. Crossing to the other side of the world to find a beetle suddenly seemed such a simple and beautiful thing.

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