He's also there the spoken word prelude to An American Elegy:
My best friend, Mama, you remember him - Kenny, from Maple Drive. You know he's been here a year. Yesterday he stepped on a mine and was unhurt...
So I suspect he is fictional, unless, that is, he faked his own death in Objects and was then sent off to Iraq.
> In Objects, as its supposed to be autobiographical, who is
> the tragic Kenny who dies? Meat never mentioned him in his
> book.
>
> Is this a long lost friend of Jim's?
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