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Owen, ordered to bat for John, hits a high foul ball that falls onto John’s mother’s head, breaking her neck and killing her. six months after John’s mother’s death, John begins to realize just how remarkable Owen is. Simultaneously, Owen wins the role of the Baby Jesus in the Episcopalian Christmas pageant and the role of the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come in an amateur theatrical production of A Christmas Carol. Owen brings the Christmas pageant to a halt when he accosts his parents in the middle of the performance, demanding that they leave. He is chillingly good as the scary ghost in A Christmas Carol on the night of the final performance, he has a vision in which he believes he sees his own gravestone–complete with the date of his own death.When the boys are old enough, they enter Gravesend Academy, where Owen thrives: he has a powerful column called “THE VOICE” in the school paper, and easily becomes the class valedictorian. Shortly before graduation, however, he is expelled for
