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- a monster in the closet would not have been the first chimera that the boy had seen in his mind's eye
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“Chimera.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chimera. Accessed 30 Sep. 2022.
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The first known use of chimera was in the 14th century
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