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The Eternal Triangle

They say there’s a black sheep in every family. This is patently untrue; sometimes there are no sheep in a family. However for the purpose of the metaphor, we may assume that Roger Jessop, fifth of the Jessop brothers of which Edgar was the youngest, was that mouton noir.

Roger grew

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