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- 1897 hands with. Most girls if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand dies on you, or
1898 else they think they have to keep moving their hand all the time, as if they were afraid
1899 they'd bore you or something. Jane was different. We'd get into a goddam movie or
1900 something, and right away we'd start holding hands, and we wouldn't quit till the movie
1901 was over. And without changing the position or making a big deal out of it. You never
1902 even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you
1903 were happy. You really were.
1904 One other thing I just thought of. One time, in this movie, Jane did something that
1905 just about knocked me out. The newsreel was on or something, and all of a sudden I felt
1906 this hand on the back of my neck, and it was Jane's. It was a funny thing to do. I mean
1907 she was quite young and all, and most girls if you see them putting their hand on the back
1908 of somebody's neck, they're around twenty-five or thirty and usually they're doing it to
1909 their husband or their little kid--I do it to my kid sister Phoebe once in a while, for
1910 instance. But if a girl's quite young and all and she does it, it's so pretty it just about kills
1911 you.
1912 Anyway, that's what I was thinking about while I sat in that vomity-looking chair
1913 in the lobby. Old Jane. Every time I got to the part about her out with Stradlater in that
1914 damn Ed Banky's car, it almost drove me crazy. I knew she wouldn't let him get to first
1915 base with her, but it drove me crazy anyway. I don't even like to talk about it, if you want
1916 to know the truth.
1917 There was hardly anybody in the lobby any more. Even all the whory-looking
1918 blondes weren't around any more, and all of a sudden I felt like getting the hell out of the
1919 place. It was too depressing. And I wasn't tired or anything. So I went up to my room and
1920 put on my coat. I also took a look out the window to see if all the perverts were still in
1921 action, but the lights and all were out now. I went down in the elevator again and got a
1922 cab and told the driver to take me down to Ernie's. Ernie's is this night club in Greenwich
1923 Village that my brother D.B. used to go to quite frequently before he went out to
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