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Kathryn Lynn
Faison is a new cheerleader with the Dallas Cowboys and is Billy's love interest. She's short and beautiful, with long strawberry-blond hair. As a Christian, she's very adamant that she doesn't particularly want to have sex until she has a "connection" with somebody, but this doesn't stop her from having a covert sexual encounter with Billy. Faison seems unsettled that Billy will return to Iraq, but despite her obvious affection for Billy, she doesn't seem particularly interested in keeping in contact while he's deployed. For Billy, Faison is very much a distraction and an escape from the horrors of the rest of his time at the Texas Stadium, though he learns when they say goodbye that she was as much a part of the horror as everything else. She expresses no interest in running away with Billy, as she sees no problem with life as it is.
Faison Quotes in Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
The Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk quotes below are all either spoken by Faison or refer to Faison. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 7
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The role of cheerleader being secondary by definition, yet cheerleaders themselves exhibitionists by nature [...] Nobody cheers for the cheerleaders! And how that must hurt, the goad for many a deafening scream of crazed enthusiasm.
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Chapter 12
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Somewhere along the way America became a giant mall with a country attached.
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They are his boys, his brothers. Bravos would die for one another. They are the truest friends he will ever have, and he'd expire from grief and guilt at not being there with them.
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Faison Quotes in Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
The Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk quotes below are all either spoken by Faison or refer to Faison. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 7
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The role of cheerleader being secondary by definition, yet cheerleaders themselves exhibitionists by nature [...] Nobody cheers for the cheerleaders! And how that must hurt, the goad for many a deafening scream of crazed enthusiasm.
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Chapter 12
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Somewhere along the way America became a giant mall with a country attached.
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They are his boys, his brothers. Bravos would die for one another. They are the truest friends he will ever have, and he'd expire from grief and guilt at not being there with them.
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