Chapter 11: Arrivals and Departures
With the arrival of fall, Brad went off to Toledo and his new life as a college football hero. He was playing first string as a freshman. Annie had healed and was now back on the trundle next to our bed. She needed help getting up the stairs and out to the yard, but she was doing all right.
Every weekend when the Rockets were playing somewhere drivable, Andy, Ted and I went to watch our guy play. Ted was going to school at State. On the way to the games he and Andy would get into deep veterinarian-type discussions. I smiled. If things worked out with Brad, maybe we’d have another vet in the family. Andy was talking about offering Ted a job at his clinic when he finished school.
We drove to Kalamazoo one morning in October to see Toledo play the Wester
