Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

But old fears have a way of clinging like cobwebs.
What does the narrator mean when she says this?

Older people sometimes keep fears from their childhood even after they know that the fears are foolish

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People still hold on to their fears for long amounts of time

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The narrator probably means that people have a way of holding on to their fears. I got this through analyzing the sentence. "clinging like cobwebs" would mean that they stay with them and are hard to overcome or forget.

particulars about treasure island, from the beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the island, and that only because there is still treasure not yet lifted, i take up my pen in the year of grace and go back to the time when my father kept th

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