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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 230<br />

Palmer‟s ‟61 Chevy Biscayne. The sprawled him across the hood and left him there in<br />

hopes he‟d wake up. I suppose, if he didn‟t, we‟d‟ve left the body there, waiting to see if<br />

anyone reported it to the police. Who knows?<br />

Now I was trying to find the beer can I set down when I was forced to begin<br />

kicking Ken‟s ass. I felt a tap on my shoulder and started to turn with a fist cocked, just<br />

in case Ken had a vengeful buddy who wanted to coldcock me. No, it was another avid<br />

participant.<br />

Son-of-a-bitch! Lord, deliver us from drunks with aspirations, please?<br />

It gets worse. The guy standing in front of me was Mike Sanborn, a burly<br />

redhead, maybe six feet, over two-hundred pounds, a hero I remembered from Holy<br />

Cross and O‟Rafferty. Two or three years older than me, Mike was a star football<br />

running back, and a champion wrestler at around one-eighty. Far and away more than I<br />

wanted to deal with unless I absolutely had to.<br />

Mike later became an attorney and, as I understand it, had a flourishing law<br />

practice in Lansing. According to the newspapers, he had some clients involved in drugs<br />

on a large scale. I believe he formed an addiction himself, and began working with his<br />

clients to move larger and larger amounts of drugs. He was convicted, I think it was in<br />

the early to mid 80s, and was given ten years federal time. The feds offer no good time<br />

reductions. I think the minimum you serve is 85% of the sentence, so Mike was gone for<br />

quite a few years. He also lost his ticket to practice law.<br />

I have no idea what happened to Mike, but I hope he recovered and is now in<br />

good stead. You‟re in my prayers, Mike. He wasn‟t, however, in my prayers at that<br />

moment. He had an idea. “Me next, Cady. Let‟s get it on.”<br />

Leviticus, Limited 33-0505963

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