Ok, so a couple days ago I was picking up some garbage around my room. I picked up a half-full Pepsi can that had been sitting on my floor for probably close to 2 weeks (I'm a slob, I know). To my surprise there was a brown spider under it. I'm from Northern Ohio by the way. I immediately panicked because it looked like what I had thought a Brown Recluse looked like. It wasn't very large. I didn't really see the trademark Violin shape on it's back though and no fangs were noticeable. This could have been because my carpet is also brown and the spider was hard to make out. I looked up spiders on the internet while looking at the spider and deduced that it was a wolf spider. Today though, I decided to look up wolf spiders and I discovered that they rarely invade homes and that they are larger. The spider I saw wasn't any larger than a quarter and it ran away whenever I moved anything around it. It had really straight legs but they were really long. I tried to kill it, but when I moved the book I smashed it with, it was nowhere to be found. Right now I'm freaking out because I hate spiders and I've looked up pictures of the spider bites... Is there any chance that the spider I saw was not a brown recluse?
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