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I looked at Kate. “Do you know who this Mephibosheth was? Do you know anything about him?”
She shook her head. “I don't have the slightest idea.”
Finally, it became clear to me that Kate, even though she was a teacher, a gym teacher, in fact, would be of no help.
“Let's go down to the internet corner,” I suggested. “I suspect we'll need a lot of help to understand this writing.”
We went and after I had typed the name Mephibosheth into the Google search bar, we found in Wikipedia the following description: