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Daddy long legs cartoon bridel english5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() All night I would be unable to shake the unbearable feeling that multiple spiders were crawling all over my body. It’s rare for any kid to like spiders, but when I was younger I would be unable to sleep at night even if we had found a spider early in the day and taken it outside. I throw in a couple of jokes about moving to another house altogether, now that this one has been invaded. I stay on the phone with her for a while, talking about how much I hate spiders and how stressed out I am at the moment. “But its legs, oh god it’s legs are so long! They are super thin, like hair, and it keeps moving them around slowly. “It has a small body, so small you can barely see it, actually,” I tell her. The thought of a spider crawling on my face terrifies me. I move my hand up and cover my nose too, my palm now barricading almost my entire face. As I approach, I realize I am covering my mouth with my hand, afraid that it might jump into my mouth. She presses me for details, so I inch closer to take a look. “A HUGE spider is hanging from my ceiling!” “Something terrible just happened!” I blurt out. She is in a different timezone, but she picks up. Instinctively I jump out of the bed, the phone still squeezed tightly in my palm as I dial a friend. Descending from the ceiling from its web, it is a spider, at the very center of my room. Something doesn’t feel right.Īt first, I think it’s a fly - lately we’ve been getting an awful lot of those as the days get warmer and the windows stay open for hours on end.īut my eyes have deceived me - it’s not a fly. Drowsy, almost hypnotized by the stream of Instagram posts I’ve been consuming for minutes past midnight, my reflexes are slow, but I set my phone down and turn towards the movement. Lying in bed, my face illuminated by the bright light emanating from the phone which I am holding too close to my eyes, I see - or rather sense, in my peripheral vision - a slow movement.
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