Sarah Kanowski
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So Dad...
said, you have injured this animal.
This animal is in pain.
You need to finish this animal.
And I didn't want to.
I could feel almost like a lump of fear and adrenaline coming up, almost like I wanted to vomit.
This was so extreme, what I'd been doing as this 12-year-old boy.
And he said, you have to finish this.
And I said, no.
And he said, this has to be done, Aaron.
It was your doing.
So I pick up my rifle ready to shoot that animal.
And he said, no, no, not with a rifle, with a knife.
And this is the knife he's gifted to me.
And that's the last thing that I want to do.
But he sort of
With strength, but also with heart and with love, he says, you have to do this, Aaron.
So I finished that goat with that knife and we sit down and my chest is heaving and dad wipes some blood on my face and he says, you're a man now.
Like a rite of passage.
That particular day, there were so many that we had shot, you know, tens and tens of animals.