Maggie Smith | The Sun Magazine

Maggie Smith

Maggie Smith works as a chaplain-intern in Portland, Oregon.

— From January 1995
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Rats

In the seventies, over a period of five years, I killed approximately two thousand rats. That’s four hundred rats per year, a little over a rat a day.

January 1995
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