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- 5098 She ran and bought her ticket and got back on the goddam carrousel just in time.
5099 Then she walked all the way around it till she got her own horse back. Then she got on it.
5100 She waved to me and I waved back.
5101 Boy, it began to rain like a bastard. In buckets, I swear to God. All the parents and
5102 mothers and everybody went over and stood right under the roof of the carrousel, so they
5103 wouldn't get soaked to the skin or anything, but I stuck around on the bench for quite a
5104 while. I got pretty soaking wet, especially my neck and my pants. My hunting hat really
5105 gave me quite a lot of protection, in a way; but I got soaked anyway. I didn't care, though.
5106 I felt so damn happy all of sudden, the way old Phoebe kept going around and around. I
5107 was damn near bawling, I felt so damn happy, if you want to know the truth. I don't know
5108 why. It was just that she looked so damn nice, the way she kept going around and around,
5109 in her blue coat and all. God, I wish you could've been there.
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5111 That's all I'm going to tell about. I could probably tell you what I did after I went
5112 home, and how I got sick and all, and what school I'm supposed to go to next fall, after I
5113 get out of here, but I don't feel like it. I really don't. That stuff doesn't interest me too
5114 much right now.
5115 A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they have here, keeps
5116 asking me if I'm going apply myself when I go back to school next September. It's such a
5117 stupid question, in my opinion. I mean how do you know what you're going to do till you
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5118 do it? The answer is, you don't. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it's a stupid
5119 question.
5120 D.B. isn't as bad as the rest of them, but he keeps asking me a lot of questions,
5121 too. He drove over last Saturday with this English babe that's in this new picture he's
5122 writing. She was pretty affected, but very good-looking. Anyway, one time when she
5123 went to the ladies' room way the hell down in the other wing D.B. asked me what I
5124 thought about all this stuff I just finished telling you about. I didn't know what the hell to
5125 say. If you want to know the truth, I don't know what I think about it. I'm sorry I told so
5126 many people about it. About all I know is, I sort of miss everybody I told about. Even old
5127 Stradlater and Ackley, for instance. I think I even miss that goddam Maurice. It's funny.
5128 Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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