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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 253<br />

Surprisingly, Nancy thought so, too. She also wanted to smack it with a brick.<br />

When that David thing was married to the other Nancy Cady, whom I think is<br />

long remarried by now, I was still married to Donna, better known as “TJ”. I gave her<br />

that nickname. It stood for “Thunder Jugs”, as she had a thirty-nine and a half inch bust.<br />

That was mostly why we got married in the first place.<br />

That David thing was still married to its Nancy when I divorced TJ and married<br />

my Nancy, who was even prettier than its Nancy. This entire section of the story is<br />

beginning to sound like that soap opera, As The Stomach Turns.<br />

We lived in Laingsburg, at 6960 East Grand River Road, on a lot I bought to put<br />

my mobile home on when we left the trailer park in 1971. TJ and I didn‟t have much<br />

money, since I was laid off the day after our honeymoon and didn‟t find a job for eight<br />

months. I did mechanical work for people at my house every day, but we were very short<br />

on cash. She worked in Lansing for American Bank & Trust, so I took her to work each<br />

day while I worked at home. We drove a banged up ‟69 Nova, (my fault).<br />

Anyone who knew us was well aware it would be wrong to ever ask us to drive<br />

anywhere unnecessarily. We simply didn‟t have the money for gas, which had reached<br />

the outrageous price of 33¢ per gallon. Yet, the Nancy that David thing married called<br />

me one night. I believe it was a Saturday. She was horrified because that David thing<br />

said it planned to kill itself and she didn‟t know what to do. I said I‟d be right there.<br />

MapQuest shows the trip is twenty-six miles. I always felt it was longer, but I<br />

don‟t argue with computers. In any event, I made it there in twenty minutes, with TJ<br />

riding along in horror as I swerved in and out of traffic. Of course, I knew it was as<br />

phony as all the other suicide attempts made by that David thing to get attention, but I<br />

Leviticus, Limited 33-0505963

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