Chapter 32 – Denouement
7:10 PM, August 5th, 2014
Adornetto’s Italian Restaurant, Zanesville
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Mel had brought me out to what she declared was Zanesville’s best Italian restaurant to celebrate her election night victory.
It wasn’t a hard-fought election. Once Noland Troutman was arrested and charged, he dropped out of the race to concentrate on his defense. The county commissioners had his name removed from all electronic voting machines. Some fools voting on punch card ballots in a couple of the county’s less voter rich precincts might still punch his name, but Mel would be the evenings’ undisputed victor.
She beamed at me from across the table. “It’s so great to see you getting around without your crutches. How do you feel?”
I’d seen Doctor Welle in the afternoon while Mel
