"Don't move," I said softly to my mom, as we sat having lunch at an outdoor cafe."What is it?" she asked in a somewhat alarmed tone."There is a spider hanging from your hat," I replied. "But I'll get it." Even though I am deathly afraid of spiders, I felt it was my duty, as my mother's only daughter, to risk life and limb and remove the tiny, fire-breathing spider from her hat. But before I could reach over to grab the thread the spider was hanging from, my mother screamed, jumped [...]
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