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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Daniela Liverani

Experience: a leech lived up my nose for a month

Daniela Liverani in a garden
Daniela Liverani: ‘The leech was longer than my finger.’ Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

It was September 2014. I’d just started working front of house in a fancy hotel in Edinburgh. I spent most of my shifts with a paper napkin pressed to my nostril, as I had been getting lots of nosebleeds. I would soon find out why.

A few weeks earlier, I’d been travelling in Vietnam. I had rented a moped and had the time of my life driving around. I soon crashed but luckily was wearing a helmet, so only got a small bump on my head.

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