She made her house available to everyone who needed a place to live for a while.That was where I saw Sherry for the first time since she was a little ...irl. We used to play in the yard when we visited her parents. That was years ago. I remembered her coming to stay with us when her mom and dad were going through a divorce and she didn't want to go through all the heartbreak and hassel that went with that. She smiled when I took her suitcases and said, "Hi, come on in." I showed her to her room. The playoffs were going to be an uphill battle. Our chances for advancing took a serious hit Wednesday when two of our linebackers got busted for joyriding in a stolen car. That afternoon as we were lining up for calisthenics, Coach Boyette pulled me aside."Practice with the linebackers today Pulaski, and you'd better be balls to the walls."Wow, Palmdale was famous for producing linebackers, we were like the Penn State of Florida prep football. The coach was giving me a serious opportunity. I. I had never met him nor did I want to. Bill and Kathy (not their real names,) Sue and I had been a foursome for as long as I could remember. Bill had just accepted a job offer five hours away so the foursome was official done. I felt very alone, and apparently so did Kathy. We found ourselves bumping into each other at social gatherings and randomly around town. I was feeling sorry for myself because of how Sue had treated me and Kathy was missing Bill. She was a great comfort to me and I. Showing them how to tie up the horses, hitching post style, on the top rail of the surround pen was my next trick. It wasn't all that difficult, but when you tie a horse on something as weak as a fence you want to make sure they can't get their head even close to grazing level. If they get even one twig of grass they will start pulling toward the next one and sooner or later they will pull the fence down unless it is very strong.We had a big advantage here since the surround's construction was.