Last summer, my spider friend laid an egg sac on my vanda orchid, which I then moved inside for the winter. Today I moved it back outside and the babies began to hatch as I moved it. How lucky I am to live in this wonderful, broken, stupid, awful, beautiful world where spiders sometimes choose me.

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