Don't eat the baby

I have always said The Bee's readers are the nation's best writers. I stand by that assessment after spending a couple of hours reading the Thanksgiving memoirs of our readers. Thank you so much for writing them -- all of you. These letters will begin running in Wednesday's paper and they are so good that we've set aside an entire page for them on Thursday. Don't miss reading them -- they will make your day. Here is one sample from Wednesday's paper.

Last year, when I stuffed the turkey, I put a small Cornish game hen in with the stuffing. When it came time for the turkey to come out of the oven, I asked my daughter (a 21-year-old) to spoon the stuffing out into a bowl. I thought my husband and I would die laughing (along with my mother and brother-in-law) as my daughter started crying out, "We killed a baby turkey." She did not catch on until we told her, and then she thought we were just saying it to make her feel better. The look on her face when we convinced her that turkeys lay eggs was priceless. -- Susan Davis, Reedley