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ILLINOIS IS THE LAND OF ADLAI STEVENSON, Owen Meany wrote. t the touching scene in the stable before the end of the fifth verse of We Three Kings of Orient Are. I see, I said; but I didn't. In ', there were , Americans in Vietnam; , had been killed there.

Wiggin and Mr. Hester's school-year roommates were elsewhere for the summer, and Hester and Owen spent every night in her Durham apartment, alone. We were standing in the dry, dusty stink of          cigarettes that was the commonplace air in the editorial o ions -indeed, his only prized possessions-and since my mother's accident had made baseball a game of death,