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I must have auditioned for fivehundred parts. Katie had come up from Magnolia a few days early because she was movinginto an apartment close to the Columbia campus, Iris recalled. He never saidanything about being taken over by Edgewater. After high school graduation five yearsago he had hitch-hiked to New York, vowing to be rich and famous beforehe was twenty-five.

His voice deepened with pride. He saw the unspoken questions in his mother's eyes. She rebuked herself for coming eastwithout bearing gifts. He was staringhard at the screen, his mouth set.