Word: rootlessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those early years, young Peter became a chronic watcher in the shadows backstage. He had slight choice in the matter. Given the rootless life of strolling players, there was little opportunity to develop friendships of a lasting sort. "I never had any real set mates," he told Biographer Peter Evans (Peter Sellers: The Mask Behind the Mask). "I'd make friends in one town for one week and then we'd move on. You'd hope, if you played that town again, maybe a year later, that the friend you'd made would still be around; perhaps...
...fact he would live two lives in the space of one, twice as long in the same amount of time." He is intrigued but not discomfited to learn that his spot exists always in twilight. His pleasure is threatened only by Irene, a woman his age and equally rootless, who discovered this world years earlier and tries to bar him from it. She has already been living a double life, has explored the mysterious domain called Tembreabrezi and knows that the residents of Mountain Town are threatened by an evil force that they will not name...