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Sounds like a catface spider to me. They have a large round or squarish abdomen with long spindly legs. They also spin beautiful orb webs. Excellent fly and mosquito eaters. We used to have hundreds of them in our barn back home.
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Could be a cat-face/monkey-face spider or possibly a banded garden spider. Check out this page for photos of both of those and see if it looks like one of them. http://www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/insect/05512.html And here's a good photo of a cat-face http://www.coopext.colostate.edu/4dmg/Pests/catspid.htm
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