An Ingenious Love Letter

　　They dragged me by my legs, screaming and yelling1 for more than several hundred yards through the dirt and pine-straw to the waiting police car. All I could hear the entire time was the high pitched sound of that whale being harpooned2 again. As we pulled away in the police car I saw the deaf boy loosen3 his grip on the fence and slide very slowly to the ground and lower his head into the leaves and pine straw. That is when I realized that he probably really did love me and he wanted to save me because he thought that I too was making the whale sound.