We then came to the Halloween     
patrols, and this brightened Rhonda up 
even more.                             
     The first thing we talked about   
was the different sections we’d be     
patrolling that night and the rest of  
the week.                              
     Pee Wee would take one section,   
and Mouse would take the downtown area,
like she always did.                   
     Rico, a friend of theirs, also    
helped out in the downtown area, when  
he could, and did an almost mirror     
image of the taxi route Mouse did.     
     Darryl would take one, and this   
year, Rhonda would go with him.        
     That left the last two sections.  
     One for Beth, and one for me, or  
four sections all together, not includ-
ing the downtown area.                 
*      Those four sections, or “hot        
spots” as we called them, were deter-  
mined by the number of animal abuse and
missing pet reports we’d put together  
over the last year.                    
     This year, Rhonda helped by hook- 
ing us up with some animal abuse       
groups, and also by getting us links to
all the ones that kept track of animal 
abuse cases in the area.               
     Beth and I always took the worst  
ones. Beth had a concealed-weapons     
permit and always carried a Glock 19,  
sometimes two of them.                 
     According to her, they were deadly
accurate at close range, but not so    
much at really long distances, unless  
you were an expert shot.               
     Beth was an expert shot. Actually,
she was better than an expert shot.    



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