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Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids

Dan Misener

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4.7 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2015

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Poetry about the female reproductive system, a violent Easter story, and accidental animal erotica. Recorded live at The Guild in Charlottetown, PE. ## Links ## Rate GRTTWaK in iTunes: http://goo.gl/VlQ3px Join the mailing list: http://goo.gl/XbkCdl Upcoming live events: http://goo.gl/3LQI4U Photos from our Charlottetown event: https://goo.gl/B6zqYp Twitter: http://twitter.com/GRTTWaK Instagram: http://instagram.com/GRTTWaK Facebook: http://facebook.com/grownupsreadthingstheywroteaskids

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0:00.0	When Nick was seven, he had a tough year, and he wrote about it in a letter to Santa Claus.
0:11.0	Dear Santa, I had to give my dog away because he was digging too many holes.
0:18.0	I'm seven years old. I'm in grade two.
0:21.6	My cat died.
0:23.6	He got run over.
0:26.6	I would just like anything for Christmas.
0:31.6	And on the back of the letter, my mom writes, P.S. Our cat did not get one over.
0:45.1	That's Nick, reading a letter he wrote to Santa Claus.
0:48.9	And this is grown-ups read things they wrote as kids.
0:53.2	I'm Dan Meisner.
0:56.8	This is a show where we go back in time to remember the good, the bad, and the awkward parts of growing up by reading childhood and teenage
1:03.8	writing on stage in front of a crowd. This time recorded live at the Guild in Charlottetown, Prince
1:10.7	Edward Island. We have poetry about the reproductive system, a very violent Easter story, and some accidental animal erotica.
1:21.2	This stuff is weird and it is wonderful and sometimes it can shed a little bit of light on who we are today. So think about
1:29.2	who you were when you were a kid and stick around. A minute ago, we heard Nick's very sad
1:43.9	seven-year-old letter to Santa Claus, and that was not the
1:47.7	only piece of writing that Nick brought along to our Charlottetown show. He also brought his
1:52.0	grade 10 English journal. You see, each week Nick's English teacher assigned the class a topic,
1:59.2	and each week they had to write a journal entry on that
2:02.5	topic. Now a quick heads up, Nick's journal does include a cuss word which we do not bleep
2:08.4	because as you'll hear, even though the journal writing assignments started out okay, things went
2:14.3	downhill pretty quickly. September 4th, 2003, second day of high school.
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