Back at my beloved Palau to see Madama Butterfly, a genuine bucket list item that I finally got to cross out yesterday. But what an eerily fitting way though to cap off a month full of emotional turmoil, to watch the doomed romance between Cio-Cio-San and Pinkerton. I’d been waiting for this day for literal years, yet I never imagined it would come as a bookend to what turned out to be a cruelly bittersweet summer. Life truly make things fall into place in funny ways sometimes…