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The First Two Wishes of The Man Whose Third Wish Wanted Death

In The Monkey’s Paw the first two wishes of the person he got must of been so terrible he wanted to end it with death.He went outside to his camp fire at night and was sitting alone under the full moon and the talisman came up to him and asked if he wanted the monkey’s paw and said it will grant you and only three wishes and the man said yes. When the man got the monkeys paw he granted that he would have a ton of money,then he went to go check to see that he got the money and his wish came true and he was very wealthy.
His second wish was to bring his wife back to life because she was making the helicopter to land instead it flipped over and sliced her up and the man wanted to bring his dead wife back to life and

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