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All it takes is a little spider silk in the amygdala, maybe a strand or two in the prefrontal cortex, and perhaps an inch in the hippocampus for near evisceration of those troublesome thoughts and ideas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut trouble lurks in many a mind at this facility and although the spider's been dead for years, its denizens are not. 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