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playfellow
noun
Playmate; companion for someone (especially children) to play with.
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Isaac Asimov's first robot story was "Robbie," also titled: "Strange Playfellow".
Emily Dickinson is flirty but barbed, torn between her "Playfellow Heart" and a "Heart that goes in, and closes the Door".
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In a quite different idiom, Rudyard Kipling's classic The Jungle Book, the story of the little boy Mowgli who is fostered by Father and Mother Wolf and grows up with all the animals as his playfellows, was first published over 100 years ago but it remains a vivid, albeit rather moralising picture of life in the forest.
A hideous crime in London's Jewish ghetto -- the crucifixion of a rabbinical student who resembles images of Christ -- gives these playfellows a fine excuse to plunge into the mysterious world of the Victorian underground.
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