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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 27<br />

routine, I‟d go pop him one for the hell of it. <strong>At</strong> least that way, he wasn‟t lying to Mom<br />

when he said I just whacked him.<br />

Our new neighborhood had a lot of kids. Eleventy-six times as many as the old<br />

one, which I thought was good. <strong>At</strong> first.<br />

The Armstrong brothers lived half a block down on the other side of the street.<br />

There were five of „em, Don, Ed‟erd, (the way they said “Edward”), Lynn, Michael, and<br />

Roland. Don was a year older than me, Ed‟erd was the same age as that David thing my<br />

folks bought. Lynn was a year younger, Michael two years younger than Lynn. Roland<br />

was the result of Mr. & Mrs. Armstrong having a few too many some years after they<br />

decided to stop having kids.<br />

Oops!<br />

Funny, and sad. Roland was a real nice kid. Since he was just a baby, as far as we<br />

were concerned, he never played with us. However, he grew up to be a real monster. A<br />

BIG kid. Six-four, two-twenty, all solid muscle. I saw a black guy start honking his horn<br />

behind Roland when, circa his age nineteen, he stopped his truck to chat with my Mom.<br />

(Everybody loved my Mom. Everybody).<br />

Roland got out of the pickup, walked back to the guy, and asked him what sort of<br />

problem he had. Evidently, he got a smart ass answer from him. He yanked open the car<br />

door, grabbed the guy, and threw him all the way across the street. He finished it off by<br />

shaking his head and saying, “Goddamn niggers” as he walked back to his truck.<br />

A year or so later, Roland was drowned in a boating accident. He was a college<br />

student and worked part-time. A good kid with a future until God called him home.<br />

Leviticus, Limited 33-0505963

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