You can hit my father over the head with a chair and he won't wake up,…

J. D. Salinger
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You can hit my father over the head with a chair and he won't wake up, but my mother, all you have to do to my mother is cough somewhere in Siberia and she'll hear you. ✨ J. D. SALINGER (1951). THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
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