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When me and my family moved here around 2009 I was never really used to the country side where there's barely any lights, cold, windy, and quite nights but here it was peaceful.

The next few months urbanization started, new subdivisions, houses, cars, streetlights, and more people have come. The night has started to be more lively.

Suddenly one night around 2010 the coldest months of the year, me and my cousins saw a swarm of lights in the middle of a large empty lot, in the grass were tiny blinking lights, so many of them, me and my cousins still remember that they filled the whole lot surrounding our house, we caught them and saw their lights like it's beating, my uncle caught one and put it a glass and we saw how bright it was until we let it out.

I still remember my parents and family outside just gazing and appreciating the view, but alas we all had to sleep and the night ended. Me and my cousins were hoping to see them at night again and so we waited, and waited, waited, and then waited.

August 2026, I'm older and the wait is finally over, today I found out that the moment fireflies fly in that huge numbers were their last curtain call, it was their last stand to try and survive, it was their call of help. While we watched in gaze of appreciation and admiration. That colonies of fireflies once they die, they never come back.

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