I love this one because of the "So do I!!!" which I wrote in after the teacher wrote her comment and which I felt needed the emphasis of not just a double, but a triple!!! exclamation mark. I think I interpreted the assignment as writing about killing a turkey and cooking it from scratch. And this must have truly offended my delicate sensibility—so much so that I guess I was a little annoyed by the "I buy mine frozen" remark. So does everybody! So why'd you make us write about killing one, then?

But I might be remembering this wrong. Maybe I just wanted to write about killing a turkey, and maybe I felt kind of ashamed about that, so I added the first sentence about it being something I "had" to do as a sort of verbal camouflage to hide my secret passion for killing turkeys. If you notice, I was kind of vague as to exactly how the turkey was to be killed. (Evidently it wasn't from cutting off it's head, because that was something one did after the killing took place.) In this way, I suppose you could read the "So do I!!!" as more of a desperate plea of normalcy and non-psychosis.

Because seriously, I didn't then, nor do I now, go around finding creative ways to kill turkeys. Honestly.

I'm not kidding!!!

Only mice and small birds.

That's not weird, right?

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