Michael Raupp Browse All Authors Famous Quotes by Michael Raupp You’ve got a creature that spends 17 years in a COVID-like existence, isolated underground sucking on plant sap, right ? In the 17th year these teenagers are going to come out of the earth by the billions if not trillions. They’re going to try to best everything on the planet that wants to eat them during this critical period of the nighttime when they’re just trying to grow up, they’re just trying to be adults, shed that skin, get their wings, go up into the treetops, escape their predators. Michael Raupp