Dear Heloise: I’ve heard that you have a recipe for eliminating silverfish like you do for roaches. Please, please, please send this to me.

I’ve been living in my parents’ home since Hurricane Katrina, waiting for my home to get fixed. My parents have battled these creepy, slithering little crustaceans since I was a child—50 years! I’ve had an exterminator come out three times, and I still see them. The stuff I could salvage has been in boxes for two and a half years, which I know they just love.

My new home is near its completion, and I am so fearful that I am going ...

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