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I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice-not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because of Owen Meany.
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Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs):
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cowardly mailman, fake draft cards, picnic wake, vestry office, granite truck, nonpracticing homosexual, monument shop, retarded janitor, diaper truck, granite business, cow costumes, diamond wheel, combat branch, new headmaster, school dining hall, other twin bed, slight stutter
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Owen Meany, Dan Needham, Front Street, Barb Wiggin, Gravesend Academy, Aunt Martha, New Hampshire, Pastor Merrill, Major Rawls, Lewis Merrill, Uncle Alfred, Sawyer Depot, Mary Magdalene, Randy White, Hurd's Church, United States, Mary Beth Baird, Christ Child, Harold Crosby, Canon Campbell, Larry Lish, Baby Jesus, Canon Mackie, New York, Father Findley
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