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Jimmie Polio

Jimmie Polio is recorded in 2 distinct storys.

Wizard and Glass explicitly expands the nickname Jimmie Polio to Jimmie Polino, the boy with a clubfoot in Eddie’s neighborhood; Wolves recalls the same boy and cigarettes.

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The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass

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“You don’t have to—” “It’s also no big deal. A bunch of us would get together—me, my brother Henry, Bum O’Hara, usually, ’cause he had a car, Sandra Corbitt, and maybe this friend of Henry’s we called Jimmie Polio—and we’d stick all our names in a hat.

Wizard and Glass explicitly expands the nickname Jimmie Polio to Jimmie Polino, the boy with a clubfoot in Eddie’s neighborhood; Wolves recalls the same boy and cigarettes.

The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla

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Greta Shaw who sometimes called him ‘Bama, although that was a secret, just between them. Eddie saw people from the old neighborhood: Jimmie Polio, the kid with the clubfoot, and Tommy Fredericks, who always got so excited watching the street stickball games that he made faces and the kids called him Halloween Tommy.

Wizard and Glass explicitly expands the nickname Jimmie Polio to Jimmie Polino, the boy with a clubfoot in Eddie’s neighborhood; Wolves recalls the same boy and cigarettes.