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<\/a>Having Local Boy’s daughter Sistine appear on the list was the reason for the whole time-travel swapped in the womb machinations set into motion back in chapter 19<\/a>. Took a few drafts to figure out how and when to best reveal this. When she was there from the jump it sucked some of the drama out, but having her added later felt like a bit of a cheat. Eventually I justified replacements being allowed only after failures by the redhead’s own seemingly2<\/a><\/sup> arbitrary rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The book doesn’t fully spell it out, but the gist is Dave Alexander got removed from the list because the Redhead failed to save him and his slot goes to Sistine. Alexander was kicked out of the Stooges after an incident at the Goose Lake festival<\/a>. 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We open with a Carter lyric, follow with a callback to chapter 29’s opening line on a time travel fake-out, find ourselves back in the van\u2014and most…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"[{\"content\":\"I briefly tried using double lines to cross out names on the list in this chapter as another play on the title, but it looked dumb. Part of me wishes I had the list names properly illustrated vs. done with handwriting font. One looks too much like a misplaced underline sometimes.\",\"id\":\"3e992569-177a-4beb-8674-fc7e7edaaa01\"},{\"content\":\"Emphasis on seemingly<\/strong><\/em>. Everything has a reason in the redhead's world.\",\"id\":\"81cc1721-6e8b-4ace-8868-645a588e4a6e\"},{\"content\":\"The same tactic was successful in saving Guigsy, however.\",\"id\":\"cfbf23a4-7456-4cf3-8691-575ab8a500a5\"},{\"content\":\"Although this happened in 2016<\/a>, I wouldn't rule out the redhead's involvement both then and in 2008 when BS was actually 27.\",\"id\":\"871a4af9-dcec-4397-94bf-be4c3f7ecb91\"},{\"content\":\"Someone recently (and accurately) called TP's time travel \\\"pretty complicated.\\\" I said this book was less so. 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