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Most people hike through rattlesnake habitat and hope they won’t see a rattlesnake. But my son, Ned, and I are not like most people. I’ve been keen on snakes of all kinds since earliest memory, and Ned, who by the age of 5 or so had discovered a knack for finding harmless, pencil-thin, red-bellied snakes at our place, enjoys reptiles, too.
Ned had never