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CHAPTER 11

 

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Unfortunately for Bud’s plans to escape, the car floods out and stops. When the man catches up to him, he makes Bud, who is a victim of his well disciplined upbringing, wind down the window just enough to talk, but not get in. They quickly get into a conversation about whether the man is a vampire. Bud is finally convinced when he sees the man’s teeth - he has no fangs. Also, he explains that the blood is being delivered to Hurley Hospital for someone’s operation. Bud opens the door and slides into the passenger seat. The man declares that he’ll take the picture in his mind of Bud taking off with his car to his grave. He even insists that he’ll wake up in a terrible sweat whenever he dreams about it.

They head back to Flint with the man asking a whole slew of questions. He gets Bud to say that his mother is dead and that his father is Herman E. Calloway. The man shouts in recognition of the name, because everyone in Grand Rapids knows Mr. Calloway and even comes to think that Bud looks like him. Eventually the man tells Bud that his name is Lefty Lewis, but that Bud must call him Mr. Lewis. He teases the boy by saying he has a peanut head and that he has so much backwash in the bottle of red pop that it looks like red stew. Finally, he......

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This chapter is a wonderful interlude for Bud whose has known little comfort in the last four years. They take under their.......

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