#hedgehogs

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Some appear to have been made from Nicholson Baker’s 1994 erotic novel The Fermata, with at least one containing sexually explicit passages. Some of those who received the hedgehogs defended the man who made them, saying only some contained explicit content and it was just a mistake. One woman said her four-year-old was “absolutely obsessed” with her paper creation, which was made using pages of Rosemary Enright’s The Walled Garden. “Oversight? Yes,” she added. “I don’t believe [there was] any malicious intent.” Others were eager to get their hands on a hedgehog. “Who’s the old guy making them? I want one,” said one man, commenting on the Wirral Globe story. “It would be especially fun if it was made from an erotic novel. If anyone knows him, tell him I’ll pay postage.”

4. If you fail to provide her with food, it is in your contract that she is allowed to eat you as sustenance (according to my research wild hedgehogs are actually opportunists and can eat corpses and other natural items depending on their species)

Baby hedgehogs

The dawn was breaking. My dear one was turning pink. The little field was sprouting ears, gathering its strength: "Oh, you ringing stalks, strive high. My dear children, drink water from the clouds!"

The earth, like a worried hedgehog, curled into a prickly ball. A lonely passerby wanders, by dawn, unable to feel his legs