I had a -F deferment; I would never have to go to war, or to Canada. military personnel in Vietnam, and only a dozen (or so) had been killed. In the spring of , when I received the notice from the local Gravesend draft board to report for my preinduction physical, I still wasn't sure what Owen Meany meant. Walker, the ogre of our Episcopal Sunday school, played the flirtatious maid in Angel Street-the Angela Lansbury character, if you can believe it.
'Ebenezer Scrooge! Am / that man?' he asked Owen, but something was wrong with Owen, who appeared to I could hear the ice cubes rattling in Dan's glass before he opened the door. Children are not the issue, my mother said. We've been here since before the war-but don't think we've ever had a fire.
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