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Pg. 27 Chapter 2 After the Festival (1984)

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That summer, Hagarty told Harold Gardener and Jeff Reeves, was the happiest summer of his life- he should have been on the lookout, he said; he should have known that God only puts a rug under guys like him in order to jerk it out from under their feet.

Pg.28 "Of course, he didn't know what Derry was really like."

     "And what's Derry really like, Don?" Reeves asked.

     "It's a lot like a dead strumpet with maggots squirming out of her cooze," Don Hagarty said.

     The two cops stared in silent amazement.

     "It's a bad place," Hagarty said. "It's a sewer. You mean you two guys don't know that? You two guys have lived here all of your lives and you don't know that?"

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"I started after him... and the clown looked back. I saw its eyes, and all at once I understood who it was."

     "Who was it, Don?" Harold Gardener asked softly.

     "It was Derry," Don Hagarty said. "It was this town."

     "And what did you do then?" It was Reeves.

     "I ran, you dumb shit," Hagarty said, and burst into tears.