But Mr. Payne was persistent, and at last I allowed myself to become involved. Once I did, I discovered that I loved working with my classmates on the paper and thinking up ideas for each new issue."
Giblin discovered a new interest when he got to high school. He answered a notice in the local paper about auditions for a community theater production of the play Outward Bound, and, as he once recalled, "My parents drove me to the barn theatre on the outskirts of town, and I nervously entered the rustic auditorium. When I arrived home three hours later--one of the actors had given me a ride--I couldn't restrain my excitement. 'I got a part! I got a part!' I shouted as I raced through the darkened house to the back porch, where my parents were sitting. The director had cast me as the idealistic young Reverend Duke in the play, which tells the story of a group of English people traveling on an ocean liner who gradually realize that they have died and are on their way to Heaven .
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