bedbuggery, part 2.
Read part 1 here.
So we had bedbugs.
This being the greater NYC metropolitan area, we had a rudimentary understanding of what that meant, as a prerequisite for modern urban living, like knowing how to handle drunks on the train. But the actual world of bedbug infestation and its potential solutions was far more tortured and disorienting than we had imagined, a science in its chaotic primordial stages, all snake-oil liniments and obsessive ritual and a confusion of tongues. We plowed into it with the courage of the ignorant —
I began calling exterminators around Hudson County —
Meanwhile, my husband got on the internet. For like three hours.
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