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Re: Fellow Slug Fanciers

From: "Cynthia Bishop" bishop at sisqtel.net> on 2001.05.04 at 02:30:31(6364)
Hi Ted...would you take 3 fat snails for the albino slug???%^)
Cyn
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Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 12:59 PM
Subject: Fellow Slug Fanciers
>
> This query is only obliquely related to aroids, but I could not hold back,
> given aroiders' feelings about slugs. After a lifetime of slug killing,
for
> which my soul will surely pay, I found an albino yesterday. A full-grown,
> healthy adult, it has all the morphological characteristics of our
> run-of-the mill midwestern garden slugs, except for color. Has anybody
else
> ever seen an albino?
>
> I resisted turning it into paste, my usual practice. It looks nice in a
jar
> on my desk with its regularly-colored companion. Come to think, I might be
> persuaded to sell it, should anyone be interested. Or donate it to the
> International Slug Museum.
>
> Serious responses only, please.
>
> Ted.Held@HSTNA.com
>
>
>

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