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Jane makes an enemy. Well, more of a potato pancake, really. She fries it up in a pan.

It has two ears. It has two eyes. It has a nose. “It’s Johnny Pancake!” she says.

She doesn’t eat it, though.

“It’s not that it’s too cute,” she says. “I’m just not hungry. I made too much!”

So she leaves Johnny Pancake on the sink.

It’s about ten years before Mr. Enemy. Fifteen, before the jaguars’ll come down.

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