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NOT IF I WERE THE PRESIDENT, Owen said. He was not accustomed to the semidarkness of my mother's room when she was sleeping, when the dummy stood over her-that unmistakable body, in profile, in perfect silhouette. Merrill failed to have faith in Owen Meany, if Mr. She would stand at the foot of the staircase and say, Not so loud, you boys!   And she would sometimes add that we were

She never intended to tell you, Dan Needham said. And there was no hurrying Owen, not even in the dullest room. He even got my mother to be his leading lady-if only once. Grandmother meant the Catholic priesthood; yet I know that one of the things that upset her about the possi