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At first, all I could see was chaos: a knot of tubes, fibers, and brittle shapes fused together, as if something had shriveled mid-movement. It didn\u2019t match any insect, plant, or nest I could find online. The more I searched, the more unsettling it became, especially with our cat roaming freely in and out of the house.<\/p>\n

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The answer finally came with a quiet, awful clarity. What I\u2019d been turning over in my hand wasn\u2019t a strange parasite or nightmare creature\u2014it was the mummified remains of a tiny frog, dried so completely it had become almost unrecognizable. Our cat had likely brought it in, unknowingly delivering this small, tragic mystery to the bathroom floor. What haunted me most wasn\u2019t the horror of it, but the realization of how easily a living, fragile thing can become something we only recognize when it\u2019s far too late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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