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Once the spring term started, Owen could afford a few, small lapses in his adherence to school rules; he wasn't much of a rule-breaker, anyway. Merrill brought his familiar stutter and his almost-as-familiar doubts to both courses. hese complaints, and others like them, I could respond only by picking up Owen Meany and holding him above my head. White wore a steel-gray, pin-striped suit with a crisp white shirt; he liked a thin, gold collar pin that pulled the unusually narrow p

ck, the singer and pianist served up music more suitable for dancing than for dinner-table conversation ellectual equivalent of a cheeseburger with everything on it; but for the duration of my interest in it, all my o Owen was up. It's no surprise to me that when God decided it was time to tell me who my father was, God chose to speak to me in Owen's voice.