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		<title>Close Encounters of the Animal Kind</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to close encounters of the animal kind, you don&#8217;t have to be Captain &#8220;Sully&#8221; Sullenberger to have had one. Our friend Frank was accosted by a swan which didn&#8217;t leave him alone until he punched it in the beak. I&#8217;ve had two deer encounters, both of which were close calls. In the first, if I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright" style="margin: 4px;" src="http://writeyourmemoir.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/dreamstime_128319.jpg" alt="" width="479" height="720" />When it comes to close encounters of the animal kind, you don&#8217;t have to be Captain &#8220;Sully&#8221; Sullenberger to have had one. Our friend Frank was accosted by a swan which didn&#8217;t leave him alone until he punched it in the beak. I&#8217;ve had two deer encounters, both of which were close calls. In the first, if I had been a foot ahead of where I was walking, the buck would have landed on me and might have killed me. In the second, a deer came out of nowhere one warm November night and struck my car, smashing my driver&#8217;s-side mirror, door, and window. At first, all I saw was a dark shape. I thought I had killed someone. If it had landed on my windshield, I might have lost control of the car.  Close calls that turned out well. But what if?</p>
<p>What close encounters of the animal kind have you had? Were they funny? Scary? Why not write a memoir about it?</p>
<p>Let me know how it goes.</p>
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