Chapter 20
BRODY BEGAN HIS Christmas break that year with high hopes for a great holiday season. The break started out ordinarily enough, but a couple of days later, his world came to a shattering halt. It was a weekday, and the station got a call to an accident an hour or so after lunch. As Ron pulled the ambulance up to the crash site, Brody got a sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach. “That looks like my grandfather’s car,” he said.
It was a Mercury Grand Marquis, and it looked like the driver’s door had been broadsided.
As they rushed up to the car with the stretcher, Brody saw his worst fears realized, and began to scream at no one in particular. “That’s Pop’s car. Is he alive?”
At that point, Ron took charge, and yelled at Sheldon. “Get over here and help us, Sheldon. If that
