Owl

It wasn't long however before Lillian had an admirer. His name was Owl, and he was the manager of the bowling alley on the base. Richard remembers liking Owl. He remembers trying to impress him. This was around the time that Richard first started wearing big boy BVDs. He remembers trying to show Owl how they worked by flapping the panel in the front open and shut, thereby exposing his penis. He remembers Owl turning away in disgust and never really turning back toward him again. It turned out that Owl's name was Al and Al unrelentingly referred to Richard as "Lillian's boy."

Within five months Al and Lillian were married. On January 17 they went to the Carson City Court House and were duly united by a Justice of the Peace. They were gone for a couple of days and when they returned they brought Richard a live turtle with a stamp on its back that said, "Visit Nevada!" on it. Richard played with the turtle a lot until one day when he came home from school only to learn from Lillian that the turtle had escaped and run away. Richard felt bad. He missed the turtle which had come from the trip Lillian had gone on to get married.