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![The love dart is a small needle hidden in snail internal sacs until copulation when it stabs the other snail to mate by injecting hormones. It can sometimes kill them, but it The love dart is a small needle hidden in snail internal sacs until copulation when it stabs the other snail to mate by injecting hormones. It can sometimes kill them, but it](https://i.redd.it/r7ghlinemvv61.jpg)
The love dart is a small needle hidden in snail internal sacs until copulation when it stabs the other snail to mate by injecting hormones. It can sometimes kill them, but it
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