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shelley and pamela jackson



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Jesse

Dreamy, gentle Jesse entered the Doll Games as a disembodied head, plundered along with Aina’s second head (Aina2) from a matched pair of Scandinavian costume dolls. Initially sharing Laurie’s body and taking turns with him, just as Aina2 shared the body of Aina1, Jesse took over Laurie’s body and his role at Laurie’s death. Much remains to be examined in the original foursome, that intriguing set of doubly matched pairs in which we can see the "twinning" motif of the Doll Games worked out in its most complex and fatal form—for one of these four blonde lovers/rivals perished in an attempt, seemingly motivated by the wish to differentiate and de-couple him from his siblings, to dye his hair black.