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His eldest sister (who modestly prefers to be identified here as a Tuckahoe homemaker) has asked me to describe him as looking like 'the blue-eyed Jewish-Irish Mohican scout who died in your arms at the roulette table at Monte Carlo.
J. D. Salinger
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J. D. Salinger
Age: 91 †
Born: 1919
Born: January 1
Died: 2010
Died: January 27
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Jerome David Salinger
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We don't talk, we hold forth. We don't converse, we expound.
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I ignored the flashes of lightning all around me. They either had your number on them or they didn't.
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Girls. You never know what they're going to think.
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