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[MineralMan]

7. My wife used to be afraid of snakes. She grew up in Minnesota, and never

really encountered any. While we lived in California for many years, I had the chance to introduce her to harmless snakes. She was fearful of them at first, but pretty soon was handling the odd garter snake I found in our yard. I knew I had succeeded, though, when she carried a pretty big king snake into the house to ask me what kind of snake it was.

Fear of snakes is often just caused by not being familiar with them, I think. Here in Minnesota, except at the far southeastern border of the state, there are no poisonous snakes, so anything you see here is going to be harmless and can be handled safely. But, I just haven't seen any. Garter snakes and some species of brown snake are fairly common in the Twin Cities, but I've not seen any of them.