Lottie shot pictures. “This is the happiest day of my life,” Jason Carey told us, through tears, as we said goodbye.
I thought about that on the way back to the office. His young wife faces years of therapy, his little son is gone forever. Yet he considered this the happiest day of his life. How can I feel sorry for myself or bitter about what happened to me? Happiness is relative.
Waiting on my desk were a dozen red roses from Kendall McDonald and a stack of mail, much of it from the jail.
I will read each letter carefully this time. We are all human, we all have frailties.
Before I could even finish the Jennifer Carey story, my phone rang. “Guess what?” Rakestraw said. “We’ve got us a carjacking in the north end.”
“Yeah?”
“The driver’s been shot in the leg.”
“Oh, no!” I snatched up a notebook. “Give me the address.” I jotted it down. “I’m on the way.”
Acknowledgments
Friends are all that matter.
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