Holy Dookie! Reading 11/22/63! This Is Connected To The Dark Tower!!!
When Roland and Susie were in the depths of Castle Discordia, did they not find a section of its underbelly that allowed access to different disasters in Earth's history, including the JFK assassination? So is the portal which leads to the past in this book one of the doors created by the Old Ones, or a thinny perhaps?
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