Even with a scholarship and two different student loans, I needed the money. At the convention in mid-July, the major candidates had their headquarters in hotels around Miami and Miami Beach, but their operations were run out of trailers outside the Convention Center. While telling the details of the latest death, Bosch saw Locke's eyes brighten with interest. The house, built in the mid-1950s, was essentially a one-room structure, long and thin, divided down the middle, with the bathroom dropped like a block in the center.
That night, Tommy Caplan’s parents took Tommy, Mother, Roger, me, and a few others out to dinner at an Italian restaurant. But the most enduring impact of the evening was that it was my first exposure to the people who brought her to Alma, Tony and Susan Alamo. Millin was a crusty old codger who took the college job after he retired from the navy. Some of the crusty old lawyers and judges and a few of the students didn’t know what to make of her at first, but eventually she won them over.
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