Poor Jack
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You play Jack, eight years old and drawn to the Thames, while your mother saves her affection for your sister Virginia and her hand for you. When she beats you with a hot frying pan, a scarred stranger in the doorway asks why, and turns out to be your father, home from six years at sea and unaware of any of it. His fourteen days of leave now hang on what the house is willing to admit before he ships out again.
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- The Stranger with the Silver WhistleFisher's Alley, Greenwich