The Christmas after Tabby's death is the first Christmas that Johnny doesn't spend in Sawyer Depot. His time is divided between his grandmother's house and Dan's. His time at Dan's faculty house is spent with Owen, going through all the Gravesend dorm rooms, which have been vacated for the holidays. The only inhabitants of the Gravesend dorm are Dan Needham, with Johnny and Owen as his occasional visitors, and the Brinker-Smiths. Mr. Brinker-Smith is a teacher at Gravesend, and his wife, who has just had twins, is the voluptuous Ginger, an adolescent sex fantasy of all the Gravesend students.
Johnny and Owen develop a very methodical way of inspecting the dorm rooms. Using this system, they can decipher many intimate details about the inhabitants' lives. Some of the things they.....
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