{O/C} {And finally}
Having gone unnoticed for decades, a treasure trove of artefacts belonging to the larger-than-life American novelist Ernest Hemingway was discovered in Florida's Sloppy Joe's Bar.
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They are short stories, manuscripts, photos, letters and correspondences that had all been shrouded in secrecy.
They have just been publicised via the Toby and Betty Bruce Collection of Ernest Hemingway at Penn State University.
Among them, an entertaining three-page short story about "Kid Fitz" -- a nod to F. Scott Fitzgerald as a fresh-faced boxer who fought other famous authors with various comedic boxing names.
In a blissful delusion, Hemingway bragged that he'd eclipsed Fitzgerald in both literary and physical virility.
The "Kid Fitz" short story perpetuated Hemingway's pattern of comparing authors via boxing imagery.
He also wrote about death and suicide before actually taking his own life.
More toiling will lift the very veil of secrecy over his personal life.
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