March 30, 2007
Corrina's Butterfly
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John Goyette, Norwich, Connecticut, August 2005
I had met a girl named Corrina and we became really good friends. We went
everywhere together. She was one of those free-spirited kind of girls --
always happy -- it was fun to be with her. She had this tattoo on her back
of a butterfly, it was her favorite thing in the world.
We once had a conversation about death, I asked her if she ever died what
would she like to come back as if she could. She told me that she would come
back as one of those big butterflies with a lot of colors. I told her I
would like to come back as an eagle. I'm sad to say that Corrina died at the
age of 24 years old.
It was about 3 months after she died that I was working with one of my
friends, Scott. I was helping him do a landscape job in Norwich,
Connecticut. I was getting tired and hungry so Scott and I decided to take a
break and have lunch. Now on this particular day, it was kind of cloudy and
very windy, not the nicest kind of day especially for August. We were
sitting there eating lunch and all of a sudden I see this huge butterfly
come toward me. My friend Scott said, "Look at that butterfly! It's coming
for you, john." As soon as I saw it, I thought of Corrina. Well that
butterfly landed on my right shoulder and stayed there for about 10 seconds.
I was in complete shock. Then it flew off of me, it circled around me 3
times, and then it flew right in front of my face and kind of just floated
there for a second or two before flying off. I don't care what anyone says,
somehow Corrina tried to let me know that she was alright. Like she said, if
she could come back as something, it would be a butterfly. I would just like
to say that after seeing that, I felt like she was with me at the time the
butterfly was around me.
