I was thinking of a sad memory of Easter--those colored real live peeps. I remember getting my new

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4. We didn't do that, but when my little sister was in first grade, she got the class chick.

Her class hatched out an egg I believe, and they were going to have a drawing on Good Friday to see which class member won the chick. Our father died on the Tuesday before Easter, and the class voted to give the chick to Mary instead of having the drawing.

Soooo, Good Friday afternoon, the day before the funeral, her teacher showed up with a baby chick, whose peeping drove us crazy for a few days until we gave it to a cousin who owned a farm. I’m pretty sure how that chick ended up, as I have childhood memories of my parents helping my cousin’s mother and step-father behead and dress chickens.