"Janet Holloway: I used to be scared to death of spiders. [places tarantula in Spencer's hands] Hold still now. Yeah, I almost fainted once when a little garden spider crawled into my bedroom. Yeah, I told my dad about it; you know what he did? He bought me a tarantula just like Leo G there. He knew I'd have to change my tarantula's water, and that meant sticking my hand in the terrarium. If I didn't give him water, the tarantula would die. My dad figured I couldn't let that happen, even to a spider. He was right: I stuck my hand in that terrarium—oh, that first time. Oh, man, I was so scared. But you know what? It got easier. Pretty soon, I wasn't even scared anymore. In fact, I go so into spiders, I started studying them, and I found science, and I became the world's greatest science teacher. … Point is, if you run away from the things you're scared of, it doesn't get any better. The fear doesn't go away; in fact, it just gets worse. Trust me."
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