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Caleb is tickled to be holding Squash, a bearded dragon lizard owned by Sgt. Saul Jaeger of the Mountain View Police Department. Sgt. Jaeger brought some of his cold-blooded friends to a special event at the Mountain View library which drew about 100 people on Saturday morning, Aug. 2.

While their parents shuddered in the background, fearless kids got up close and personal with a menagerie of reptiles, happily holding snakes and feeding cockroaches to lizards.

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    Odeya Rush and Brenton Thwaites star in “The Giver.” Photo by David Bloomer – The Weinstein Company.
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    “When I Am Gone” is part of the exhibition by Dana Harel at Palo Alto Art Center. Courtesy Dana Harel.
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    Fifty silver gelatin prints by photographer Doug Menuez, “Fearless Genius: The Digital Revolution in Silicon Valley, 1985–2000,” are on exhibit at the Computer History Museum. Copyright Doug Menuez/Contour by Getty Images/Stanford University Libraries.

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Andrea Gemmet is the editor of The Almanac and a Midpeninsula native who got her first newspaper job while still in high school. After graduating from the University of California, Santa Cruz, she became...

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