Hi Boyana, I’m no expert on spiders but I am quite certain that it isn’t a brown recluse. Brown recluse spiders have a violin pattern on the head/torso and have only 6 eyes, arranged in 3 pairs (for comparison: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Brown_recluse_spider,_Loxosceles_reclusa.jpg ).
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