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A hermit is a person that keeps to themselves and does not live with others. They tend to be loners. The Hermit Crab is named that way because they live alone in a shell that was not theirs to begin with. They find an empty shell and move in. Kind of lika a squatter who moves into an abandoned house away from others.

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