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Baba omitted the truth to protect his sons — their bewilderment also meant plausible deniability — and Lucky Auntie’s tough love shields the boys from any real fallout.

"The emotion of getting into these things is just one of extraordinary bewilderment because when you come across something you're not expecting to find, it's emotionally extremely turbulent really," he said.

I suspected it was a crock, so I began by turning to the feline fanatic's go-to expert in times of bewilderment and crisis: cat behaviorist Jackson Galaxy.

Passing drivers were "left in bewilderment" as the snake was pulled out of the car, police added; Tim Nanninga from Melbourne Snake Control said some in traffic started to video the removal.

“There was bewilderment about what perspective I was writing from,” says the bestselling author, whose sixth novel, “Colored Television,” is out now.