THE DUCK THAT DIDN’T DUCK … OR DIE: Bear with me as I tell the simple, quasi-sad story of a now-dead but once dead-then-not-dead duck, specifically a female Canada ring-neck duck, which was killed one good by a hunter but ended up being only moderately dead and went on to resurrect itself, while hanging upside in a frigid storage refrigerator, entwined within a gaggleless gaggle of less resurrectionally inclined ducks.
Hell, even I need an explanation after that.
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