title: Osage County Kids: A True Story
author:  Lou Dean 
description: OSAGE COUNTY KIDS reads a bit like Huckleberry Finn, with each chapter introducing a new adventure, but with a serious........ -- <i>Jennifer Bartlett, Steamboat Today</i>
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  # On The Road
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # On The Road
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  JACK KEROUAC
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # On The Road
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## PART ONE
  
  
  During the following week he confided in Chad King that he absolutely had to
  learn how to
  
  
  write from him; Chad said I was a writer and he should come to me for advice.
  Meanwhile
  
  
  Dean had gotten a job in a parking lot, had a fight with Marylou in their
  Hoboken
  
  
  apartment -- God knows why they went there -- and she was so mad and so down
  deep
  
  
  vindictive that she reported to the police some false trumped-up hysterical
  crazy charge,
  
  
  and Dean had to lam from Hoboken. So he had no place to live. He came right
  out to
  
  
  Paterson, New Jersey, where I was living with my aunt, and one night while I
  was studying
  
  
  there was a knock on the door, and there was Dean, bowing, shuffling
  obsequiously in the
  
  
  dark of the hall, and saying, “Hello, you remember me -?Dean Moriarty? I've
  come to ask
  
  
  you to show me how to write.”
  
  
  “And where's Marylou?” I asked, and Dean