[Insert Title with Pun on 'Dada' Here]

After yesterday's big revelation in my book, I must tell everyone about the other possible endings I had considered.  (While there are no spoilers about the ending here, you still might want to read the latest installment at The T. H. Weingarten Miscellany first, just in case.). As I mentioned last time, the original plan for the book included having a second part.  This was partially due to the fact that the book would have been about five chapters shorter than it is in its current form, and that would have been too short, even after editing to include more.  Part two would have been set four years later.  It starts out with Chris taking a look at himself in his large bedroom mirror dressed only in his briefs (the same mirror as in the current version).  He has not only lost the paunch he had been developing, but he had also put on about thirty pounds of muscle. He looks and feels great.  He is getting ready to go on a morning talk show to talk about his first book which is getting great early reviews.  He is also engaged with a wedding coming up within the month to a B- or C-list celebrity.  Suddenly, there is a knock at the door.  Sam barges in before Chris can respond.  Sam is also barely dressed, just some swimming trunks.  He and his friends are planning a day out and Sam wants to barrow something.  Not clothes, as Sam has grown to a 6' 4" man.  While still lanky, he has some muscle tone, suitable for the former captain of the school's swimming team.  In fact, Sam has an athletic scholarship for the University of Kentucky.  After some small talk, Sam leaves and Chris gets ready for the show.  On the way back from downtown, Chris picks up some of his old friends in preparation for a sort of bachelor's party.  At the time, the friends weren't as defined as they are now, so they really weren't the Rick, Will, and Pete of the current version.  Anyway, while getting ready for the trip, one guy traces a signal from Chris's bedroom to Sam's.  It is only now the Chris discovers that Sam had been secretly filming him while naked or nearly so.  Later, after Sam returns and the other men go to the place they are staying at, Chris confronts his brother.  After that, I had nothing.  I could't come up with a good ending at that point.  That's why I took some of those elements and introduced them earlier into the plot.  The rest of the the details are still canon.  I'll be using them in the follow ups to Dada.  That's right, it is a trilogy that I'm now brewing.  Each one taking place exactly four years after the previous one, after Sam graduates from high school and college.  I had other possibilities though.  At one point, Chris knew the truth about the accident from the start, and that his father was the only survivor.  He was comatose, but it was discovered that he had cancer.  The real reason for bringing him to New York was to save his father, as Sam might not have lived or even existed in this draft.  Chris would just hang around New York, waiting for the test results.  He would go on a date to the club mentioned last week as well as seeing the art film.  The experiences turn him off of both his long absent father and the city.  The final irony though was the while Chris was his son, he wasn't a match.  Fortunately, another long lost son or cousin was found who was a match.  Chris leaves with a terse goodbye to his father without the possibility of the two ever seeing each other again, whether or not the treatment works.  This was too much of a downer for me, so I ditched that idea quickly.  I am having trouble reconciling my ideas for the current ending, though.  I am setting up the seeds for the sequel, while making sure that enough is tied up so the book doesn't feel like I made to many twists and turns.  I will have to add many details to help set up the ending sooner.  I mean that last revelation.  I think I have set it up by making sure nothing contradicts it, but I might not have been clear enough.  I will probably add some chapters too.  Currently, the book looks like it will have twenty-three chapters, but I don't want to book to end on such an odd/prime number.  For this rough draft, that can't be helped, but it will work for the revisions.