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Mile 81 i Stand by Me meet Chri tine the tory of an in atiable car and a heroic kid.At Mile 81 on the Maine turnpike i a boarded up re t top, a place where high chool kid drink and get into the kind of trouble high chool kid have alway gotten into. It the place where Pete Simmon goe when hi older brother, who uppo ed to be looking out for him, head off to the gravel pit to play paratrooper over the ide. Pete, armed only with the magnifying gla he got for hi tenth birthday, find a di carded bottle of vodka in the boarded up burger hack and drink enough to pa out.Not much later, a mud-covered tation wagon (which i trange becau e there hadnt been any rain in New England for over a week) veer into the Mile 81 re t area, ignoring the ign that ay clo ed, no ervice . The driver door open but nobody get out. Doug Clayton, an in urance man from Bangor, i driving hi Priu to a conference in Portland. On the back eat are hi briefca e and uitca e and in the pa enger bucket i a King Jame Bible, what Doug call the ultimate in urance manual, but it i nt going to ave Doug when he decide to be the Good Samaritan and help the guy in the broken down wagon. He pull up behind it, put on hi four-way , and then notice that the wagon ha no plate .Ten minute later, Julianne Vernon, pulling a hor e trailer, pot the Priu and the wagon, and pull over. Julianne find Doug Clayton cracked cell phone near the wagon door - and get too clo e her elf. By the time Pete Simmon wake up from hi vodka nap, there are a half a dozen car at the Mile 81 re t top. Two kid - Rachel and Blake Lu ier - and one hor e named Deedee are the only living left. Unle you maybe count the wagon.
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