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That was the summer we were eighteen. We drove the Jeep out the logging road to Noah's Chevy; we took the Chevy out on the highway, through Sawyer Depot and Conway, to the emergency entrance of the North Conway Hospital. ' 'these people could be deterred from their commitment by a little cold weather? I said it was colder in New Hampshire. Then Noah and I flung Owen into the closet through the other door: the closet was L-shaped, and by Owen's en