Possible Gerald's Game link

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I read this earlier (got curious). Jake, while living in Derry, has brief encounter with trick-or-treating father and little girl. The father calls his daughter Punkin...I guess that's what you were connecting to the novel Gerald's Game. I think it is interesting and even possible (judging by time period and that she is in Maine) but I'm not convinced. Was this the only connection?
 

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I read this earlier (got curious). Jake, while living in Derry, has brief encounter with trick-or-treating father and little girl. The father calls his daughter Punkin...I guess that's what you were connecting to the novel Gerald's Game. I think it is interesting and even possible (judging by time period and that she is in Maine) but I'm not convinced. Was this the only connection?
...tenuous at best I'd say...it's not an uncommon nickname....
 

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I read this earlier (got curious). Jake, while living in Derry, has brief encounter with trick-or-treating father and little girl. The father calls his daughter Punkin...I guess that's what you were connecting to the novel Gerald's Game. I think it is interesting and even possible (judging by time period and that she is in Maine) but I'm not convinced. Was this the only connection?
Yeah, it's probably nothing.
 

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yeah,think it is just a term the author used in several books for little ones..didn't the father in the girl who loved tom Gordon,also call her punkin?
 
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Just found this looking it up in Gerald's Game. When it's the eclipse she's 10 going on 11, July '63. About her father "..who had comforted her at the age of six when a capering circus clown frightened her into tears,.." That puts it at '58 , IT's era.
I'm intrigued. Now I'm wondering if that was a connection in 11/22/63, after all. His Easter eggs are usually more pronounced but this one, at the very least, stacks up chronologically and geographically.
 
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I'm intrigued. Now I'm wondering if that was a connection in 11/22/63, after all. His Easter eggs are usually more pronounced but this one, at the very least, stacks up chronologically and geographically.
It works for me, I prefer this tenuous Easter egg to the too obvious Bev and Richie one. Having just flicked through Gerald's Game and 11/22/63 on my kindle, I would say it is an Easter egg.
 

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YES

I can smell the sequel now

Jakes' Game.

Jesse from Gerald's Game discovers a rabbit hole and goes down in an attempt set the horrible things her father did to her right.....by KILLING HIM! But Jake Epping is hot on her trails from tampering with the time stream. What ensues is a lot of mumbo jump where they eventually have to team up to stop some greater threat or something.
 
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