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Life’s curveballs.

Curve in the Road

This can’t be good.

This column originally appeared as a special to the Kenosha News, Sunday Mornings With Basil Willis, May, 29, 2011.

We were awakened Saturday morning at 1 am by pounding on the door and the phone ringing. Beth and I looked at each other, and without saying anything we both slipped out of bed. She quietly answered the call as I grabbed a weapon from the night stand and crept toward the stair case.

A Kenosha police dispatcher was calling; there was an officer at the door. I put the weapon away, quickly put on a robe and thought, “This can’t be good.”

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