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Wiggin asked Owen. ' 'MY HANDS WERE THE INSTRUMENT, he said. As a folksinger, she was Hester Eastman-an earnest nobody, a flop. THIS GUY IS A REAL MYSTERY, Owen would say.

Then Colonel Eiger saluted the folded flag, and the medal. MY HANDS WERE THE INSTRUMENT. That's right, Dan said. Owen Meany's formidable pedestal in the St Michael's schoolyard, more than two years after the attack upon her predecessor.