![]() He thinks Jake is the man to complete what his health has made impossible. The story he has to tell is one of time travel, history, opportunity and the chance to correct one of this country’s greatest wrongs. ![]() Shock replaces curiosity when he finds Al extremely ill and seemingly aged overnight. Curiosity and the intensity of the man’s request find Jake paying him a visit at the closed eatery. He’s recently divorced, reasonably happy with his job and about to start his summer vacation when he gets a surprise call from the owner of a local diner. Jake Epping is an English teacher in a small town in Maine (no surprise there). ![]() I’m not surprised that Stephen King does, though – he’s really not like most people, now, is he? In 11/22/63 he has his character going back not into his own past, but into a past before he was born, where he has an opportunity to change everything. But people rarely imagine going back in time to change the lives of millions – we just don’t really operate on that level. How things would have been better if they had or hadn’t done something. ![]() Everybody thinks on occasion about a moment, or two, or a thousand, in their lives that they would change if they could. ![]()
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