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Merrill and Owen. It's true! Mr. MY FATHER WANTS TO START YOU OUT IN THE          MONUMENT SHOP, he told me. His name is Daniel Needham, my mother said.

AND HE NEVER TALKS ABOUT VIETNAM-JUST SOME CRYPTIC SHIT ABOUT HOW THE ARMY DIDN'T PREPARE HIM TO KILL WOMEN AND CHILDREN, OR TO BE KILLED BY THEM. SOMEONE OLD ENOUGH NOT TO CRY. You'd think that Humphrey Bogart could learn a better Irish accent than that, my grandmother complained. Zit Master, that Morris West was Nose Master, that DufFy Swain (who was prematurely bald) was Hair Master,