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TOP TEN OZ CHARACTERS | STAFF | 04. DIANE WHITTLESEY

My ex was a big hunter - he was always going off with his buddies - so I said to him one time to take me. After some complaining, he did. So I got there in the forest with this big hunking shotgun and I fired at a deer. Hit it dead on. So I went over to this thing and I leaned down and this deer looked up at me with these eyes, these eyes like — flashlights. I knelt beside it and I held its head and I whispered, “I’m sorry.” And like batteries going bad the light in its eyes flickered a little bit and went out. For the next two years we were married, every time I walked into the den I had to look at this fucking deer’s dead eyes. I had to dust them. When we got divorced that’s all I asked for, the deer’s head. Then I buried it.