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He ain’t hairy; he’s my brother

Veronica Strydom and Jed Laubscher have never met, but they share a passion for what many people consider hairy horrors. More specifically, the eight-eyed, eightlegged and “occasionally naughty” spiders known as tarantulas.

Veronica and Jed are members of a Facebook group called Tarantula Keepers South Africa, where nearly 2 000 enthusiastic

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