Cody
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The wounds were parallel, four of them, about six inches long, about two inches apart.
Like something had grabbed him with one hand and dragged it down his leg while it pulled.
The cuts were deep, but they missed the artery.
He got 43 stitches.
He told the doctors he'd fallen into a piece of equipment.
A rake attachment on a bulldozer, he said.
They didn't believe him, but they stitched him up anyway.
I sat in Lenny's truck in the hospital parking lot while Bud waited inside with Travis.
It was just me and Lenny.
It was dark.
It was maybe nine at night by then.
We'd been there for hours.
Lenny was smoking a cigarette.
He didn't smoke normally.
He'd bummed it off a guy in the parking lot.
Cody.
Yeah.
I want to tell you something, and I need you to not tell anybody.
Your dad especially.
''Okay.''