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Carly Reitsma

Carly Reitsma lives in Canaan, New Hampshire, where she works as a gardener and fishes for brown bullheads.

— From September 2009
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Taking A Life

It was a brilliantly sunny October day, and I was driving on Route 100 alongside Vermont’s White River when the driver of the logging truck in front of me slammed on the brakes. I stopped just in time to avoid a collision and saw a great animal floundering in the middle of the road up ahead. Someone had hit a white-tailed deer, a doe.

September 2009
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