“I was not only twenty-three, but a conspicuously retarded twenty-three.”

— Jerome David Salinger, book Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963), Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters (1955)

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