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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LauraMI" data-source="post: 30450" data-attributes="member: 3071">What I do love about this is you are indeed the cutest thing...& w/ a tarantula. I had my perceptions too about people who were into these hobbies. I loved insects as a kid, even "adopting" wolf spiders each summer who lived in our shrubs, feeding them all season. I'd rescue earthworms from puddles even. But I was a pretty girlie-girl who loved her books and was socially awkward and so people made fun of me for the insect-fascination. (Watched Arachnophobia at a sleepover & my social-fate was sealed when I said "Awww" as the star-tarantula met her mate!)So I kept it quiet & eventually forgot.Then I go to an exotic pet show & see a young woman as pretty as you going balls-out into a bin of scorpions...unable to decide which she would get. Changed my perception completely!So seriously now, what T is next on your list?  Google "M. balfouri"!</blockquote>