"Spiders Can Bring Happiness (sometimes)"

"The woman's heart, asleep in the child, was vaguely thrilled by a dream of love."

-Sarah Orne Jewett (A White Heron)

I received a letter.

The first one since July.

And it cracked my face a little bit, I was so happy. ♥

I had chased a spider under the couch, frightened it with my vacuum...

Me, the girl who flinches from deer heads on the wall, who pales when a baby robin lays naked and dead at the foot of a tree, was ready to snuff so small a life as a spider's.

But my peripherals distracted me from the deed.

I halted, half-bent to kill, when my gaze brushed the brown of the envelope.

It blended so well into the carpet.

And if my half-starved eyes hadn't hoped to see his handwriting--fresh--every day...

I would've missed it.

But it was found; the spider led me there.

Thank you, spider.

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