References To Real Life and Actual History
- Skyscrapers make Rose think of John Glenn.
- Jerene's father was a supporter of Richard Nixon during the 1968 election.
- Billie Jean King is mentioned through Rose having read about her lesbianism in a newspaper.
- Colleen Dewhurst would read to Eliot when he was a child.
- The Watergate trials are mentioned in passing, about the way the 'Watergate conspirators had wept at their trials', after Owen hears Philip's coming-out story.
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