Alone with Helen
Alone with Helen"It's okay. He won't bite.""What's his name?""Butchy. Did you just move in here?""Yeah," my mom said. The dog was a little frisky toy beagle. He was jumping all over me. I was sitting on the front steps of the house my mom and I had just moved into in Chicago. "Well, I'm Helen, your neighbor. I live in that blue house over there.."She pointed to a house just one block over. "I'm Grace and this is my son John.""Very nice to meet you. Butchy seems to really like you John.""He's...