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Uncle John

Affectionate name for John Bellingham used by family.

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Also known as poor Uncle John, Poor old Uncle John

First appearance: i the vanishing man

Uncle John shows up with force in A Museum Idyll. The page is where that presence becomes real.

Ruth and her father maintain the fiction that he is still alive, though they suspect otherwise.
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