Not to be read while eating

My junior year of college I was a home school teacher for a fourteen-year old "senior in high school." I taught her math and biology. She was pretty cool once she came out of her shell, but her mom was nuts. She was very religious and prevented me from teaching evolution. Fairly difficult when the biology text is set up in an evolutionary fashion. I ended up using the phrase "scientists believe" quite a lot.

Anyway, years before I had even met the family, the mom had been driving home when she saw a deer that had been hit by a car. She pulled over and found that the deer had been pregnant and when she was hit she miscarried an almost fully developed fetal fawn. So what does the woman do? She went home, got some plastic bags, went back to get the fawn and stuck it in her freezer because she "figured it might make a good science experiment one day."

Enter yours truly about five years later. She tells me this and that she wants her daugher and I to dissect it. Now this thing has been in the family freezer for years. I'm not talking some big, stand alone freezer out in the garage, I'm talking the freezer over the fridge in the kitchen. So she defrosts it in a pan of water over night, and voila, next day her daughter and I dissect it.

Let me tell you, it gave me a new appreciation for prepared dissections. At least there the blood has been removed. Blech! On the positive side (aka once all the blood was drained) it was pretty nifty just because it was larger than any dissection I had ever done so you could really see everything. Yes, I am a science geek.