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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 251<br />

nice things about that David thing, but that ain‟t necessarily so. That‟d be a lot like me<br />

asking you to take Grandpa‟s old pickup truck, the one that hasn‟t even been driven since<br />

he turned in his license in ‟87 when his eyes went bad, and get it ready to run in the Indy<br />

500. That dog won‟t hunt. No can do.<br />

However, I will recap what I know, keeping in mind a lot of this is what I heard<br />

from Mom, making it secondhand.<br />

Thinking back, and I mean all the way back to when my folks first bought that<br />

David thing, I can‟t recall it was ever in a fight. Not once. Not in grade school or high<br />

school. Not in any neighborhood squabbles. Nothing I heard about when it was an adult.<br />

I don‟t think that David thing ever had the balls to fight anyone.<br />

Nothing miraculous in school, either. I‟m not sure that David thing ever got an<br />

“A” in anything. It‟s not stupid, but no one ever volunteered its name when they voted<br />

for class valedictorian. It probably came up in the Class Sissy category, but I‟m not<br />

much on details in that regard.<br />

That David thing was never with the “in crowd” in school, but the drug crowd<br />

was an altogether different situation. No arrests, however, of which I was ever made<br />

privy, and I know Mom would‟ve had to tell me that part if it happened. It would‟ve<br />

turned fifty-eight on February 11 th , 2009, and any successes are, to my knowledge, still to<br />

come. They haven‟t shown up yet, at last reporting.<br />

Mom tried a reunification effort in 1979, at Thanksgiving. She arranged for “the<br />

entire family” to have dinner at that David thing‟s house. It was married to the third wife<br />

at that time, Barb. She had a daughter, Nikki, by some other guy before she met that<br />

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