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Bill Cady, The Early Years … by Bill Cady 20
CHAPTER THREE
When I was four, my parents bought a house inside the city of Lansing. The place
on Haze street was still technically outside the city limits back then. The new one was at
1363 Roosevelt Avenue, adjacent to the Michigan School for the Blind, in a subdivision
called Knollwood Park.
Personally, I thought they should‟ve told me they were moving, but they didn‟t
say a word. I came in the house one day and all the furniture was gone. Draperies and
everything. I ran through the house yelling, “Mom? Mom? Where are you?”
Of course, I didn‟t give a rat‟s ass where that David thing was, and I didn‟t really
want to find my old man. Not with all these changes. What if he doesn‟t like „em and
decides to whip my skinny little ass to take out his frustration? Hey, my Mom didn‟t
raise any stupid children until she got to my younger brother. Yeah, she really went to
town with that David thing, but her oldest boy was no damned dummy. Even then, at
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