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lly when the famous fool skipped into the audience to dance with them! He actually likes old people! my grandmother said in wonder. How could it ever have occurred to me that a fellow eleven-year-old was thinking any such thing? That Owen Meany was a Chosen One Well, my mother adored Owen; if he'd given her a gravestone with the date of death left blank-to be filled in at the appropriate time-she would have loved that, too. It's all because I'm a former American, and she doesn't like Americans; this is so obvious-that and the fa

About the time my plane left Boston, Owen Meany was identifying a plywood container in the baggage area of the San Francisco airport. so downy and such a pale-gray color that I first mistook it for pulverized granite, the familiar rock dust that clung to him. I could see that he was sweating; it was such a cold day, the old church furnace was throwing out the heat full-tilt-the When Owen would sleep in the other twin bed in my room, with the night table between us, we would carefully