Eddie Dean thought the answer to both questions was yes.

'Let's get that up front,' as your late friend Eddie Dean might have said.

Eddie Dean blew breath into the keyhole of his memory.

He had to do more than come forward; he must make contact with Eddie Dean.

"I want to go to war," Eddie Dean said calmly.

"We could have taken the shape of Eddie Dean, but felt that might be too painful to the lady."

When the time came, Eddie Dean would be in a long tub of trouble if he couldn't produce that powder.

He doubted if Eddie Dean was going to be wild about it, either.

That was a subject on which Eddie Dean felt he could personally give testimony.

This was the woman with whom Eddie Dean had fallen in love.