It was so long ago, I can't remember the names of the characters, or anything about the actual sets for the play. Dan Needham had his own story about meeting Randy White; that was after White was offered the job. According to the State Department, according to Dean Rusk-remember him?-we were winning a war of attrition. Both Lydia and my grandmother stared at me, as if only my Mends would be uncouth enough to make a call after dinner, uninvited.
So put Owen on disciplinary probation, Dan Needham said. The truth is, I never had to suffer. In the baby powder on the makeup table, the name OWEN MEANY-as he himself had written it-was still visible. The breakwater was made of the slag-the broken slabs-from the Meany Granite Quarry; Owen always felt he had a right to sit there.
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