Her friends thought her training as a lepidopterist was frivolous until she discovered, with the help of a friendly textile chemist, that butterfly wings could be synthesized to create an almost invisible, stronger-than-Kevlar fabric. The royalties from this discovery enabled her to get her pilot’s license, buy a Twin Cessna, and travel the world photographing butterflies….. and tasting local varieties of gin.
(a PJH story)
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