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To: Salamander
You're a good daughter. :-)

My father was so petrified of snakes that he joined the Navy in WWII to preclude the possibility of being drafted into the army and having to crawl through snake-infested (as he imagined them) fields.

Until the day he died, if there was a snake shown on a TV show, he couldn't change the channel fast enough.

I'm pretty much the same; I consider you to be very, very brave.

45 posted on 01/05/2017 4:40:17 AM PST by Madame Dufarge
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To: Madame Dufarge

Not really...I did all that for the snake’s sake, not dad.

:D

If he’d seen it, he’d have killed it, with extreme prejudice.

My whole childhood was spent grabbing up every snake I found, much to his horror.

I cannot count the snakes he saw in our yard, then ran into the house to get a gun but when he came back, the snake was “gone”.

I moved really fast, back then.

;)


54 posted on 01/05/2017 11:18:21 AM PST by Salamander (We're pain, we're steel, a plot of knives...)
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