title: A Big Storm Knocked It over
author:  Laurie Colwin 
description: An enchanting novel about motherhood and marriage by the late author of Happy All the Time . <br />Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: **Double Take**
  
   **Alan Jacobson**
  
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  THE CRACK OF LIGHTNING PULSED against the pitch sky, backlighting the barren
  landscape around the Westchester Surgery Center.
  
  Lieutenant Carmine Russo, arthritic joints aching from the winter rain, paced
  outside the door to the operating suite where Oliver Henry, MD was at work. He
  felt the jolting belt of thunder as the sound waves concussed against the
  windows, shaking the building in an explosive burst. The storm was close.
  
  Russo ignored it, keeping his feet moving and his mind off what was going on
  in the adjacent room where a much younger Ben Dyer lay. A lifetime ago Russo
  had been Dyer’s Big Brother, taking the at-risk youth under his wing and
  mentoring him. Now Russo was trying to save him yet again.
  
  The door to the surgical suite swung open and out stepped Dr. Henry, clad in
  maroon operating room greens. His creviced face was long and drawn. He joined
  Russo near the window and in a low voice, said, “The medica