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Bobby said, “Where are you going?”
Bo said, “I’m going to get some sun. What about you?”
“Me, too,” Bobby said. “I’m going to get plenty of sun.”
Two days later, Bo chuckled at a joke, and took another bite of barbecue, and asked for a can of beer. The neighbors in that nice neighborhood in the Franklin Mountains in northwest El Paso sure knew how to throw a block party, she thought.
Bobby looked at the front of the building and remembered the first day he went to kindergarten. He was so scared and apprehensive. The building was so white and clean, the grass green, and there were palm trees everywhere. He looked at the sign with the address, 39000 Bob Hope Drive, Rancho Mirage, California.
He walked through the arched doorway and up to a reception desk. A pleasant-looking woman smiled at him.
Tears filled Bobby’s eyes, and he was embarrassed, saying, “My name is Bobby Samuels. I have reservations.”
She smiled broadly, saying, “Major Samuels, we have been expecting you. Welcome to the Betty Ford Center. This will be your new home for the next month.”
Bobby tried to smile, but was really fighting to hold back the tears right now. He could not wait to climb into a bed and get some sleep, lots of it.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Don Bendell is the author of twenty-two books and a motion picture with more than 1.5 million copies of his books in print worldwide. As an enlisted man, he served as an MP at Fort Dix, New Jersey, and as an officer, he was a Green Beret captain and served on a twelve-man A-team in Vietnam in 1968-1969, as well as the top secret Phoenix Program and three other Specal Forces groups. A seventh-degree black belt master instructor in four different martial arts, Don also owns karate schools in southern Colorado and was inducted into the International Karate Hall of Fame in 1995. Don’s political editorials have been published far and wide, and he has been interviewed on Fox News Live and many other national radio shows. A real cowboy with a real horse, Don, and his black belt master wife, Shirley, live on a large mountain ranch overlooking Cañon City, Colorado. He has four grown sons (one a Green Beret), two grown daughters, and five grandchildren.
Don Bendell, Broken Borders
