The characters / Recurring character
Teddy Duchamp
Teddy Duchamp is recorded in 2 distinct storys.
The Body’s boy with the distinctive laugh is one of the boys Ace Merrill bullied alongside Chris Chambers and Vern Tessio in Needful Things. Carrie’s deceased gas-station owner is a different depicted role and is kept separate.
Stories and supporting passages
Needful Things
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The boys Ace Merrill had once terrorized—boys like Teddy Duchamp, Chris Chambers, and Vern Tessio—would have recognized him at once in spite of his graying hair.
Ace’s former victims are named together.
The Body
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… just bit the bag and stepped out the door,” Teddy bugled, and then gave out with his patented Teddy Duchamp laugh—Eeee-eee-eee, like a rusty nail being slowly hauled out of a rotten board. Well, he was weird; we all knew it. He was close to being thirteen …
Teddy jokes with Gordie and Chris during their boyhood.