A brown praying mantis appears on a table next to mine on the hotel terrace. Perhaps it has changed its color on account of the early fall. It is usually bright green this time of the year. I get up to see it better, as well as to tease it a bit, and it quickly becomes a tourist attraction. Everyone on the terrace comes to photograph it. Even Branka Šćulac, the head-waitress, comes along with her own camera. The insect appears to enjoy the attention it is getting. It is not scared of anyone. Actually, it comes forward whenever anyone approaches it. It even climbs the zoom of a camera within its reach, and there is much laughter all around. “I love this creature,” I tell Branka with a big grin. She is not sure that she has heard me well. “It reminds me of someone,” I add. She knows my beloved well, and thus she laughs heartily at once. Indeed, the semblance is kind of obvious, but I am still surprised at how obvious it appears to be. Does my beloved really look and behave like a praying mantis? Oh, I am so much in love!