When the eggs in the egg tube are ready, the worm slips backwards out of the saddle. As the saddle passes the egg tube, six eggs are dropped in.
As the saddle passes over the worm's head, the ends close up and make a tiny lemon-shaped cocoon with the eggs inside.
This cocoon protects them until they hatch out as very small but fully developed worms.
Two months later, she left me for a church-camp guy who had (somewhat rightfully) convinced her that I was the Anti-Christ.
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