Shedding Antlers

JT MacDonald
3 min readNov 1, 2021

Good news! Parents’ shortcomings don’t always lead children to psychotherapy.

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When I was 11 there was a Christmas pageant at my school. I was signed up to be one of the reindeer. Comet. We were sent home with instructions to dress up as said reindeer. Have antlers at the very least. There were suggestions about how to create them with a headband. I passed these along.

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JT MacDonald

First person asked to help hide the body. Last person asked to join a pick-up game. Throws parties to avoid embarrassment of forgetting host’s name.