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\"\"<\/a>

Peyton Sawyer's House on One Tree Hill\u2014 and John Jeremiah Sullivan's in life.<\/p><\/div>\n

Last spring our Southern editor, John Jeremiah Sullivan, came up to New York to give a little reading here on White Street. The surprising but true story he read, about living on the set of One Tree Hill<\/em>\u2014because it was his family\u2019s house<\/em>\u2014just appeared in the new issue of GQ<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

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My wife was eight months pregnant, and we lived in a one-bedroom apartment, the converted ground floor of an antebellum house, on a noisy street downtown, with an eccentric upstairs neighbor, Keef, from Leland, who told me that I was a rich man\u2014that\u2019s how he put it, \u201cY\u2019er a rich man, ain\u2019t ye?\u201d\u2014who told us that he was going to shoot his daughter\u2019s boyfriend with an ultra-accurate sniper rifle he owned, for filling his daughter full of drugs, \u201cshoot him below the knee,\u201d he said, \u201cthat way they cain\u2019t get you with intent to kill.\u201d Keef had been a low-level white supremacist and still bore a few unfortunate tattoos but told us he\u2019d lost his racism when, on a cruise in the Bahamas, he\u2019d saved a drowning black boy\u2019s life, in the on-ship pool, and by this conversion experience \u201ccame to love some blacks.\u201d He later fell off a two-story painting ladder and broke all his bones. A fascinating man, but not the sort I wanted my daughter having unlimited exposure to in her formative years. Not my angel. We entered nesting panic. We wanted big and solid. We wanted Greatest Generation, but their parents, even greater. We found it. It had a sleeping porch, and a shiplike attic where I in my dotage would pull objects from a trunk and tell their histories to little ones. We asked for the money, and in some office somebody\u2019s boss came forward with the Stamp.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

We commend the essay to your attention, the video version<\/a><\/a> too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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