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Bobby Cowles

Bobby Cowles is recorded in 1 distinct story.

One of the two children who report Laughlin in Topeka and are shown grinning on the Games broadcast. The story gives both children the Cowles surname but does not explicitly state their sibling relationship.

Also recorded as Bobby.

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The Running Man

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He had been cowering in a Highway Department road shed. He had broken his right wrist at some point. The kids, Bobby and Mary Cowles, were shown grinning broadly into the camera. Bobby Cowles had a tooth missing. I wonder if the tooth fairy brought him a quarter, Richards thought sickly.

The report identifies both children who found Laughlin and shows them on camera; Bobby is individually named in the next sentence.

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The Running Man ↗By Stephen King · writing as Richard Bachman