The Loss of a Loved One

By Samuel Mattei

This article has been requested several times. Mainly from the same person.

The trick has been trying to think of a headline to describe who I am about to write about. This young man has a terrible addiction. A terrible addiction to ducks!

The addiction all started when Stephen Gregory Michael Ann Bisel was only a child. He grew up on a farm in Collingdale Pennsylvania. Well it was actually just a house with a large backyard and some overgrown grass.

One day Stephen Gregory Michael Ann Bisel was playing with his little mermaid doll when he heard something coming from a bush.

When he walked over to see what it was. He found a duck egg hatching.

Stephen Gregory Michael Ann Bisel named the duck Lennon. Stephen Gregory Michael Ann Bisel and Lennon went everywhere together. School, shopping with his mom, vacations to Jacksonville and Rhode Island. They were inseparable.

One day Stephen Gregory Michael Ann Bisel was walking home from school. He had to make Lennon stay home because they were going on a field trip to The Zoo. When he got on his street he saw something on the top of his roof.

Lennon was distraught. He did not know what to think. Did Stephen Gregory Michael Ann Bisel leave him for another Duck? Where could he have been all this time?

Stephen Gregory Michael Ann Bisel yelled to Lennon to stay put. After hours of pleading with Lennon not to jump, Stephen Gregory Michael Ann Bisel was forced to call the fire department.

All was well once the fire department rescued little Lennon from the roof top.

Stephen Gregory Michael Ann Bisel did not know what to do. It was time to move to a new house in Ridley that didn't allow animals.

He was convinced that it was time to let Lennon be free.

Above is a picture of Stephen Gregory Michael Ann Bisel letting Lennon free into the wild where no one would ever upset him again. The photo is indeed blurry due to the photographer having to take the photo from many yards away in hiding. Stephen Gregory Michael Ann Bisel had rented out the park for privacy purposes.

As you can see the duck is running away. Stephen tried to chase it and fell, screaming AH MY NOSE as Lennon swam to his new family.