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It was a bright Sunday morning, a few days after the fourth of July. The rain had stopped. A hot, dry wind blew from a now cloudless Texas sky. The warm, wet, fragrant...

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Life in the suburbs was intended to be like this: quiet schools with playgrounds, hike and bike trails,  the fragrant air, the sound of birds singing,neighbors walking their dogs or pushing baby strollers...

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In our new, spacious home, scorpions were everywhere. When we painted the privacy fence, there were so many we painted over them and sealed them to the wood. Inside the house, they clung...

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