I parked and waited, until I could
get to that frame of mind again, and it
wasn’t easy, but as usual, thinking    
about Bowser helped a lot.             
     Hopefully, you’ll meet him later. 
     While I was trying to do that,    
Beth took up the slack, and kept track 
of everyone for the rest of the night, 
and even though no one said, “out,”    
nothing got garbled.                   
     The only thing that got garbled   
was when everyone laughed, and that’s  
only because, for some strange reason, 
everyone kept their mic on when they   
did it, including me.                  
     I should've been mad, because Beth
sounded like she was throwing a tea    
party, rather than concentrating on the
patrol. I didn’t, because I knew that  
doing more than a couple things, at a  
* time, was as easy as a sneeze for her.   
     I’ve seen her measure, tap, and   
administer a sedative, while talking on
the phone with Barry, and telling me   
what was going on, and also what I     
needed to do to help.                  
     When we were out on patrol to-    
gether, I could sometimes sense some-  
thing wrong a little quicker, but she  
was almost always pulling over, just as
I was saying it.                       
     I was lucky if I could do one     
thing at a time, let alone two, unless 
I was doing something impulsive, or out
on patrol, but she was always like     
that, all the time.                    
     She’s amazing.                    
     Everyone got excited about Friday 
and asked her if I was crazy or not,   
like I wasn't even listening.          



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