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KAREN HALVORSEN SCHRECK is completing her doctorate in English and Creative Writing at the University of Illinois in Chicago. She has published in a variety of journals, and has had several exhibitions of collaborative phot-text projects with her husband, Gregory Halvorsen Schreck. This story was recipient of a Pushcart Prize.
Although you may find this hard to believe, I was once a little girl, and terribly discontent. My bones ached with it, my desires pointing like fingers in all directions. For instance, the year I visited the slaughterhouse, I longed for…