This isn't about J.D. Salinger's right to legally block the publication of 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye by J.D. California. This is about love and the adolescent inability to separate real life from fiction; the tantalizing privileges of adulthood from the rewards of childhood fantasy. It is about reading The Catcher in the Rye for the very first of many times.
The spring of eighth grade was my literary equivalent of "Where were you on 9/11?" I attended...
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