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My pet is a fly. His name is Lucky.

Jan Sebastian 🖐👩‍🦰
4 min readDec 11, 2021

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I just got him this morning. Actually, he found me.

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He kept landing in my arms and shoulder so I put on a sweater.

Then my face. Lucky was getting on my last nerve!

I kept working. I could kill him, but being disabled it takes me 20 minutes to put cream cheese on a bagel.

Fucker would probably kill me if I tried to off him.

Finally, I resigned from the thought l of killing him and named him Lucky.

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Buzz, Buzz. Buzz, Is he singing to me?

I put a bandana on my head and my headphones over it because he was annoying me, and googled…

“How long does a fly live?”

The answer is 28 days.

So lucky will live a long and fruitful life.

I now feel compelled to share more fly info.

Do flies poop? Yes…House flies defecate… a lot

And they aren’t too worried about where they do it either! As you know, house flies like to live off a liquid diet. Because of this, their digestive system can move quite quickly, which…

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Jan Sebastian 🖐👩‍🦰
Jan Sebastian 🖐👩‍🦰

Written by Jan Sebastian 🖐👩‍🦰

I had a stroke so I can’t walk or talk, but I can write! Just a new chapter in life. I love the journey…..By me a cup of coffee Ko-fi.com/jansebastian5419

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