Fall arrived. With it came the start of school. I was usually somewhat reluctant to go back, but after the trial and the threat of losing all of this, I was happy to return to the students and books. Andy still hadn’t heard about his exams. After a week and a half he started sitting on the front stoop waiting for the mail carrier. After two and a half weeks he began walking down the street to meet the mail carrier. After a month he called MSU to see what was going on. He got the run around and decided he had flunked. I tried to encourage him, but he was sure he hadn’t cut it. He was so upset with MSU he wore U of M’s maize and blue on the day of the rivalry game.
Fall also brought Peter’s and Patti’s birthdays. To celebrate the latter, the family went to the cemetery to place mums, her fa
