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A childhood belief about under my bed

when my daughter was a toddler, she believed that monsters were in her room. I made her some "monster spray" by putting lavender-scented water in a plastic spray bottle, and told her to squirt it in the direction she thought monsters were hiding, and that it would kill the monsters. I can't count how many times I'd come into her room to check on her in the middle of the night to find her fast asleep, clutching the bottle in one chubby little fist, and the whole room smelling of lavender and slightly damp...

— Liz

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