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Spiders are awesome, & tiny spiders are adorable. I was terrified of them growing up, but slowly got used to them. Then one summer, several years ago, I discovered a black widow living in my bedroom window, between the glass and the screen (there was a tear in the screen that I guess it would go in & out of). I didn't feel like messing with it, so I made it a deal: I don't kill you, you don't kill me or my cat. So I let it live there, just doing its spider thing. Eventually it died, I think maybe it got stuck behind the screen and starved. But since then I have respect for spiders. I never kill them and persuade others not to as well. One exception is when my brother-in-law found a spider (about the size of a quarter) in his kitchen on Thanksgiving, missing half it's legs, probably due to one of their cats. But when we prodded it with a spoon handle, instead of running, it waved two of its remaining legs up in the air at us in defense. It was a bad-rear end spider, but it was so beat up we decided to put it out of its misery. Scorpions are terrifying. Cool, but terrifying. The best bugs, though, are mantises.
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