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I have a feeling that you__e riding for some kind of terrible, terrible fall. . . . The whole arrangement__ designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn__ supply them with. . . . So they gave up looking.
J.D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye
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I have a feeling that you__e riding for some kind of terrible, terrible fall. . . . The whole arrangement__ designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn__ supply them with. . . . So they gave up looking.

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