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That was how we ended up on Newbury Street-one Wednesday afternoon in the fall of '. Once I struck the surface of the lake with such force that my right eyelid was rolled up into my head in a funny way. r back to home plate-at that moment, my father told me, he had prayed to God that my mother would drop Except for his Basic Training-at Fort Knox or Fort Bragg-Owen had never been out of New England; I'd never been out of New England, either.

SACRED, he added. And whose idea was that? the headmaster asked him. Merrill said. men must have been an exercise in tedium-and one that risked disabusing the youngsters of their infatuation with the stage.