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The second they “see the light” together is everything. Dodo producer Keren spoke with Lexi about rescuing a newly emerged butterfly from under her house — and how the experience even helped her face her claustrophobia.

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00:00My knee popped out of place like four times when we got it.
00:04My back was hurting, my knees were hurting, it was quite light.
00:09Hi, I'm Lexi. I took this video from my boyfriend while he was at work,
00:13and it ended up being way too special to keep to ourselves,
00:16so we decided to share it with the dodo.
00:19So I came outside to get some work done.
00:22I heard some fluttering.
00:26And this beautiful butterfly, he found a perfect safe space to make his cocoon,
00:33and now he's too big to get out.
00:35It seemed like you were genuinely like, what is happening, but I'm going to do it anyway.
00:39Yeah, yeah, just kind of spontaneous.
00:42I didn't want to die struggling, like I was so worried for it.
00:46I called my boyfriend, he said, there's a big crawl space, like you could just go under there.
00:51And I was like, I don't know about that.
00:54He said, just wait till I get home, I'll do it.
00:56Yeah, like I can do this.
00:57So I'm going under the house, wearing a hat so that way like nasty bugs don't get in.
01:03Oh my God, I've never been under a crawl space before.
01:06All right, guys, I don't know about this.
01:09Okay, I think he's probably up there.
01:12I'm glad I checked because there's actually a closer crawl space entrance.
01:18So here's the thing, this is kind of my worst nightmare right now.
01:21Okay, this is actually a lot scarier than I thought it would be.
01:27Someone had a party down here.
01:29I also have a knee injury.
01:31I didn't really think about that.
01:33Actually, I have no idea how I'm going to get him in here.
01:36I found him.
01:38I found him.
01:42He did not want me to touch him.
01:44He was not thinking like, you're saving me.
01:47Please don't flap, it's going to freak me out.
01:49All right, come on.
01:51Okay.
01:56I think he'd just become a butterfly, right?
01:58Yeah.
01:59He didn't know what was going on.
02:00He has no idea what's happening.
02:02Yeah, he has wings now.
02:03He's like, oh my God, what is this mechanism?
02:05I don't know.
02:07He's an aggressive guy.
02:10Got him.
02:12He's in here.
02:13My knee popped out of place like four times, but we got rescue mission complete.
02:18Let's go.
02:19I know.
02:21The light.
02:22My back was hurting.
02:23My knees were hurting.
02:27Here he goes.
02:30Do you remember how you felt the moment where he flew away?
02:33It kind of felt like we were going through the stress together.
02:37Be free.
02:38Neither of us want to be here right now.
02:40Like, let's just make it easy on the both of us and get out of here.
02:44So I felt like there was, like, a huge sense of relief from both of us.
02:48And I overcame my fear of being claustrophobic.
02:51I feel way more comfortable.
02:53I think my biggest takeaway is, like, it's wilderness out there.
02:56Like, you never know what you're going to come across.
02:59Be free.
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