SPIDER SCAPEGOAT: Let’s have some fun and talk about winter bites, itches and rashes. I’ll begin by relating the worst midwinter skin outbreak I have ever seen. It came about when a highly conscientious, kinda hippyish mother added a fragrant herbal product to the dry cycle of her family laundry. To this day, her now PhD daughter cringes when recalling her allergic reaction – and need for steroid treatment.
The weird part, and gerund to the spidery aspect secreted in this segment, was the assumption the girl had been rashed…
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