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Callahan, Daniel

"Any Coincidence Is"


"Oh for Pete's sake!" Ritchie muttered.
"They make such a wonderful couple," Betty sighed.
"A couple of what is what I'd like to know... Now listen here,
Lovebirds!" The Lovebirds turned. "Whatever's going on, the people
who are working with this guy," Ritchie said, pointing to the still
unconscious Forrester, lying in the corner with a pillow under his head
and Betty's second-best afghan over him, "meet at Seltsam. If the only
place you can get to from there is that theater, then maybe that's
where they are."
Tom slapped his hand to head. "The theater! The basement! It's huge,
and the Manager never lets me go down there!"
Alona smiled and said: "I knew you'd figure it out!"
Ritchie felt like reclining his chair all the way back and calling it a
night, but his wife reached over and patted his hand, which was all the
support he needed, all that he would ever need, to get up in spite of
himself and do what had to be done.

24. Challenging assumptions
"I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my
mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to
founts of wisdom and knowledge.


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