Snake skin

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  Sometimes in my back yard I'll find snake skin laying in the grass. There was never anything odd about it because that's what snakes do. One night I heard footsteps crunching through the leaves in my yard. I looked out my window, expecting to see a rabbit or some other wild animal. I was terrified when I saw a man with very damaged skin with blisters and scabs and skin that appeared to be very rough. He slowly peeled off his own skin, blooding dripping down his arms, and then threw it onto the ground. I realized that his skin looked very familiar to the snake skins I was finding in my back yard...

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