“I got through school because I paid a boy named Guggenheim to take that sort of drudgery off my shoulders… I graduated magna cum laude.”

We pick back up with Orson as he ends his time at Todd commandeering the school’s drama program, taking a summer trip to his beloved Asia, and coping with the death of his father, with whom he shared a complicated relationship.

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