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July 25, 2021 73 mins

J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 11.  Jane Gallagher had been the sort of girl who kept her kings in the back row.  Is she still?  As sixteen-year-old Holden Caulfield unravels over the course of a few days in Manhattan his thoughts often return to Jane, who haunts his memory and is connected to so many of his most pressing obsessions:  sex, vulnerability, change and authenticity.  

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