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Polynesia

Polynesia is recorded in 1 distinct story.

Pet whose marker recalls squawking; Louis infers it was a parrot. The animal is distinct from its literary namesake. Identity is scoped to this novel unless a specific cross-work source connection is documented.

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Pet Sematary

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A row farther in was: GEN. PATTON (OUR! GOOD! DOG! the inscription amplified), who had died in 1958; and POLYNESIA (who would have been a parrot, if Louis remembered his Doctor Doolittle correctly), who had squawked her last “Polly want a cracker” in the summer of 1953.

Pet whose marker recalls squawking; Louis infers it was a parrot. The animal is distinct from its literary namesake.

Pet Sematary ↗ (paid link)By Stephen King