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View from the North 40: The tick tic revisited: I hope it's not an annual thing

A tic is a frequent unconscious quirk of behavior, and a tick is a hard-to-kill, blood-sucking, parasitic arachnid that causes you to unconsciously and repeatedly scratch your head and body. Tic and tick sound exactly alike. Coincidence?

I think not.

I wasn’t going to write about ticks. I swear. I’m pretty sure I wrote a column about them last year. I had this whole thing about body part discoveries planned out for today. Brand new body parts. Imagine that. Then the ticks started coming on and they kept coming and now I can’t think of anything else.

And I can’t stop scratching m...

 

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