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BILL CADY Word Count: 149,227 - At My Friend's Place

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Bill Cady, The Early Years … by Bill Cady 124<br />

CHAPTER NINE<br />

One of the guys in our crowd was an enigma in every respect. His name was<br />

Buddy Frahm. I‟ve only known one other person in my life much like Buddy, a guy<br />

named Rick Taranto. Rick was an Italian-Jew I met while I sold cars. He was a little<br />

guy, maybe five-four, with a big guy complex. He was every bit as sarcastic as Don<br />

Rickles. A complete wiseass in every respect. Most of the guys I knew couldn‟t stand<br />

Rick. Almost all his customers were women. They liked him, for some reason, but men<br />

seemed averse to Rick moments after they met him.<br />

I could take Rick in small doses. Maybe an hour at a time, and not every day of<br />

the week. We‟d get along, then he‟d say or do something to piss me off, and I‟d have to<br />

walk away before I killed him.<br />

When he found his ex-wife was having sex with most of the officers in a small<br />

town outside of Lansing, the Williamston, Michigan police department, he didn‟t take it<br />

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