"Nostalgia!" Miss Frost cried. "You´re nostalgic!" She repe… - John Irving

"Nostalgia!" Miss Frost cried. "You´re nostalgic!" She repeated. "Just how old are you, William?" She asked.

"Seventeen, " I told her.

"Seventeen!" Miss Frost cried, as if she'd been stabbed. "Well, William Abbott, if you're nostalgic at seventeen, maybe you are going to be a writer!"

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John Winslow Irving (born 2 March 1942) is an American novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter (for The Cider House Rules, based on his novel of the same name).

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Birth Name: John Wallace Blunt

Alternative Names: John Winslow Irving • John Wallace Blunt, Jr.

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