Holden Caulfield, you will always, always, always be my first hero, antihero and crush.... Because you said things like, "It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes."
And things like, "It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road. "
With things like, "Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be."
And chose to end with, "Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."
... All of which made the teens seem that much more normal, regular, usual.
RIP
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