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Java
Allan Onik
King, Rowling, and Patterson drank coffee in Pitt’s Cathedral of Learning. At the table, King signed a copy of It, Rowling a copy of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, and Patterson a copy of Kiss the Girls. They exchanged them, smiling.
“We made it,” King said.
“The money, the fame, it’s all ours,” Patterson said.
“I can remember when I was homeless in my car, writing Harry Potter. I had a dream. Isn’t that what writing is all about? Not just the money or the fame, but the dream?”
“Amen to that,” King said, “In college I’d steal from the grocery store just to fill my stomach.”
Allan walked up them holding a Styrofoam Dunkin’ Doughnuts cup. “I have over 50 stories published with Down in the Dirt Magazine. Can I have an autograph?”
King took a swig of some java. “Aren’t you supposed to be pulling weeds outside?”
