It's nice when somebody tells you about their uncle. Especially when they start out telling you about their father's farm and then all of a sudden ge… - J. D. Salinger
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It's nice when somebody tells you about their uncle. Especially when they start out telling you about their father's farm and then all of a sudden get more interested in their uncle.
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J. D. Salinger
Jerome David Salinger (1 January 1919 – 27 January 2010) was an American author, most famous for his novel The Catcher in the Rye.
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Portrait from Wikimedia Commons. Credit: Photo by Lotte Jacobi, per a credit in the bottom-left corner of the original dust jacket's back cover. Published by Little, Brown and Company. Used under Public domain / CC0. Processed and styled by Quotewise.
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