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  • if bed bugs were the most traumatic thing of my adult life, cat fleas are well up there for the most traumatic part of my childhood (and that's a tough race). i'd say we had them more than we didn't have them for about 5 years. every time we treated they'd go away for a couple of weeks and then it'd be back to having 10 land on your legs/socks the second you walked into a room, I used to hear them jumping on paper and plastic surfaces while I was trying to fall asleep. didn't help treatment stuff was so expensive and we were well below the poverty line.

    Twice I've seen a singular flea in somewhere I've lived as an adult and immediately carpet bombed the entire place in flea spray & powder and nipped it in the bud before they could take root.

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