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Mary Cowles
Mary Cowles is recorded in 1 distinct story.
One of the two children who report Laughlin in Topeka and are shown on the Games broadcast. The later nightmare is not used to assert another real event.
Also recorded as Mary.
Stories and supporting passages
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 televised account names Mary among the two children who reported Laughlin.
broadcast
The Running Man ↗ (paid link)By Stephen King · writing as Richard Bachman