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Dear John *** This is one of a series of alternate endings to the Henry James short story The Beast in the Jungle. John Marcher, the protagonist, lives with, “the sense of being kept for something rare and strange, possibly

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Papa Pole *** Father I swallowed a dead star It scratched my throat and left a scar It burned my organs from inside but it never left from my bottom side Mother said this one will never quiet her open