... and is having vivid (but pleasant) hallucinations. Weary tries to be chummy with his supposed buddies, the scouts, grouping himself with them as "the Three Musketeers." The scouts abandon the two and tell Weary that he and Billy are on their own. Billy goes to 1957, when he gives a speech as the ... He leaps back to 1944. Ditched again, Weary starts to beat Billy up, furious that this weak college kid has cost him his membership in "the Three Musketeers." He cruelly beats Billy, who is in such a state that he can only laugh. Suddenly, Weary realizes that they are being watched by five ...

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... . The two scouts decide to ditch Weary and Billy, much to Weary's chagrin. All his life people have ditched him. He has imagined himself and the scouts as "The Three Musketeers," and he blames Billy for breaking them up. Billy is suddenly giving a speech in 1957 as the newly elected president of the Ilium Lions Club. Then he is back in ... , a Polish man had been lynched for having sex with a German woman. Billy dozes off and drifts back to a moment in 1944. Roland Weary is shaking him; Billy tells the Three Musketeers to go on without him. The plane crashes into Sugarbush mountain in Ver...

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• Grade Level: High School