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Bill Cady, The Early Years … by Bill Cady 52
CHAPTER FIVE
Holy Cross grade school was where I got my learnin‟. B‟fore I started there, I
couldn‟t even spell writer. Now I is one. Actually, I could spell it. I knew my ABCs
and could read, sort of, by the time I was eighteen months.
Holy Cross was a small parish school. If I had to estimate, I‟d say maybe 750
students, total, grades one through nine. Oh, that was another shitty switchypoo I had
pulled on me. All the years I attended, from first grade and after, ninth graders were the
elite. They were the crème de la crème, the “gifted ones”. When they graduated, they‟d
be in high school at St. Mary‟s, which also had a grade school. Years before, the bishop
had his office at that school.
So, whaddaya think the news was when I started eighth grade, knowing in one
more year, I‟d be in that king of the hill group? They announced the diocese was
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