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UncleSepp

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Wed Dec-29-04 04:45 PM
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8. My mom got bit by a bug

She was digging in her garden and got bit by a bug, or so she thought. There was a lump in her arm for a while. It swelled and started to hurt, then finally burst. A bunch of little worms or maggots came out. The ER doc said that the species that had put its eggs in her arm should never have been in her garden, since it was not native to North America. Her neighbor, also a gardener, makes trips now and again to South Africa and IIRC South America. We figure he must have brought a bug back on his shoe or maybe in a smuggled plant.

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